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R
Vir
te
x-5 Roc
ketIO GTP
T
ransceiver User Guide
UG196 (v1.3) Ma
y 25, 2007
2
Table of Contents
Default Chapter
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Default Chapter
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Revision History
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Table of Contents
5
Preface: about this Guide
13
Guide Contents
13
Additional Documentation
14
Additional Support Resources
15
Typographical Conventions
15
Online Document
16
Section 1: FPGA Level Design
17
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Rocketio GTP Transceiver
19
Overview
19
Chapter 2: Rocketio GTP Transceiver Wizard
19
Ports and Attributes
23
Sim_Gtpreset_Speedup
37
Sim_Pll_Perdiv2
37
Chapter 3 : Simulation
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Overview
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Ports and Attributes
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Description
42
Limitations
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Link Idle Reset
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Power-Up and Reset
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Sim_Receiver_Detect_Pass
43
Smartmodel Attributes
43
Defining GSR/GTS in a Test Bench
44
Providing Clocks in Simulation
44
Simulating in Verilog
44
Simulating in VHDL
44
Toggling GSR
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Examples
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Simulation Environment Setup Example (Modelsim SE 6.1D on Linux)
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SIM_PLL_PERDIV2 Calculation Example
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Overview
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Ports and Attributes
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Chapter 4: Implementation
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Description
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Example of a UCF for GTP_DUAL Placement
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Package Placement Information
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Chapter 5: Tile Features
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Tile Features Overview
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Shared PMA PLL
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Overview
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Ports and Attributes
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Description
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Configuring the Shared PLL for XAUI
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Examples
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Configuring the Shared PLL for
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Configuring the Shared PLL for Gigabit Ethernet
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Configuring Shared PLL for PCI Express
67
Clocking
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Overview
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Clocking from an External Source
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Description
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Ports and Attributes
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Clocking from a Neighbor GTP_DUAL Tile
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Clocking Using GREFCLK
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Overview
72
Reset
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Ports and Attributes
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Description
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GTP Reset in Response to Completion of Configuration
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GTP Component-Level Resets
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GTP Reset When the GTPRESET Port Is Asserted
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Link Idle Reset Support
75
Resetting the GTP_DUAL Tile
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Examples
79
Overview
81
Ports and Attributes
81
Power Control
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Description
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Generic GTP Power Control Capabilities
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Power Control Features for PCI Express
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Examples
85
Powerdown Transition Times
85
Description
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Dynamic Reconfiguration Port (DRP)
87
Overview
87
Ports and Attributes
87
Chapter 6 : GTP Transmitter (TX)
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Transmitter Overview
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FPGA TX Interface
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Overview
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Ports and Attributes
90
Configuring the Width of the Interface
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Description
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Connecting TXUSRCLK and TXUSRCLK2
92
Examples
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TXOUTCLK Driving a GTP TX in 1-Byte Mode
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TXOUTCLK Driving GTP TX in 2-Byte Mode
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TXOUTCLK Driving Multiple Transceivers for a 2-Byte Datapath
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REFCLKOUT Driving Multiple Transceivers with a 2-Byte Interface
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Configurable 8B/10B Encoder
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Overview
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Ports and Attributes
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8B/10B Bit and Byte Ordering
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Description
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Enabling 8B/10B Encoding
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K Characters
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Running Disparity
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8B/10B Bypass
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Overview
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TX Buffering, Phase Alignment, and Buffer Bypass
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Ports and Attributes
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Description
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Using the TX Buffer
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Using the TX Phase-Alignment Circuit to Bypass the TX Buffer
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Using the TX Phase Alignment Circuit to Minimize TX Skew
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Description
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Overview
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Ports and Attributes
108
TX Polarity Control
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Overview
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Ports and Attributes
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TX PRBS Generator
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Description
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Overview
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Parallel in to Serial out (PISO)
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Ports and Attributes
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Description
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Configurable TX Driver
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Overview
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Description
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Differential Voltage Control
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Ports and Attributes
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Pre-Emphasis
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Configurable Termination Impedance
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Txinhibit
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Overview
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PCI Express Receive Detect Support
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Ports and Attributes
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Description
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Overview
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Ports and Attributes
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TX Oob/Beacon Signaling
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Description
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PCI Express Beacon Signaling
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SATA OOB Signaling
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Chapter 7 : GTP Receiver (RX)
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Receiver Overview
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RX Termination and Equalization
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Overview
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Ports and Attributes
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Description
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Optional Built-In AC Coupling
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Configurable Termination Impedance
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Configurable Termination Voltage
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Optional Configurable RX Linear Equalization
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Overview
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RX Oob/Beacon Signaling
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Ports and Attributes
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Description
132
Detecting PCI Express Electrical Idle
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SATA OOB Detection
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Example
134
Overview
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Ports and Attributes
136
RX Clock Data Recovery (CDR)
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Description
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CDR Reset
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Tuning the CDR
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Horizontal Sample Point Shift
140
Overview
141
Ports and Attributes
141
Serial in to Parallel out (SIPO)
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Description
142
Oversampling
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Overview
143
Ports and Attributes
143
Configuring the 5X Line Rate
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Description
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Activating and Operating the Oversampling Block
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Configuring the PCS Internal Datapath and Clocks
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Description
146
Overview
146
Ports and Attributes
146
RX Polarity Control
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Overview
147
Ports and Attributes
147
PRBS Detection
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Configurable Comma Alignment and Detection
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Description
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Overview
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Ports and Attributes
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Configuring Comma Patterns
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Description
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Enabling Comma Alignment
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Activating Comma Alignment
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Alignment Boundaries
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Alignment Status Signals
153
Manual Alignment
154
Configurable Loss-Of-Sync State Machine
155
Overview
155
Ports and Attributes
155
Description
156
Configurable 8B/10B Decoder
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Overview
157
Ports and Attributes
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8B/10B Decoder Bit and Byte Order
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Description
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Enabling the 8B/10B Decoder
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Disparity Errors and Not-In-Table Errors
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K Characters and 8B/10B Commas
159
RX Running Disparity
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Configurable RX Elastic Buffer and Phase Alignment
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Overview
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Ports and Attributes
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Description
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Using the RX Buffer
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Using RX Phase Alignment
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Bypassing the RX Buffer While Using Built-In Oversampling
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Configurable Clock Correction
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Overview
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Ports and Attributes
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Description
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Enabling Clock Correction
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Setting Clock Correction Sequences
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Setting RX Buffer Limits
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Clock Correction Options
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Monitoring Clock Correction
174
Configurable Channel Bonding (Lane Deskew)
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Overview
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Ports and Attributes
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Channel Bonding Mode
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Connecting Channel Bonding Ports
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Description
178
Enabling Channel Bonding
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Setting the Channel Bonding Sequence
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Precedence between Channel Bonding and Clock Correction
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Setting the Maximum Skew
181
FPGA RX Interface
182
Overview
182
Ports and Attributes
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Configuring the Width of the Interface
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Description
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Connecting RXUSRCLK and RXUSRCLK2
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Chapter 8: Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)
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Overview
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Ports and Attributes
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Description
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Using CRC for Error Checking
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The CRC Primitive
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Using the CRC Blocks
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Integrating the CRC Blocks for RX
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Integrating the CRC Blocks for TX
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Implementation of the CRC Block
194
References
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Chapter 9: Loopback
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Overview
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Ports and Attributes
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Description
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Near-End PCS Loopback
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Marginal Conditions and Limitations
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Near-End PMA Loopback
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Far-End PMA Loopback
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Marginal Conditions and Limitations
198
Far-End PCS Loopback
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Chapter 10 : GTP-To-Board Interface
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Analog Design Guidelines
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Overview
201
Ports and Attributes
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Description
202
Overview
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REFCLK Guidelines
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Description
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GTP Reference Clock Checklist
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Oscillator Selection
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Sourcing more than One Differential Clock Input Pair from One Oscillator
209
AC Coupling
210
Switching between Two Different Reference Clocks
210
Unused Reference Clock Inputs of GTP_DUAL Tiles for Clock Forwarding
210
Examples of Vendors and Devices
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Overview
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Providing Power
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Description
213
Linear Regulator Selection Criteria
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Ferrite Selection Guidelines
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Regulator Design Guidelines
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Capacitor Selection Guidelines
215
Filter Network Design Guidelines
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Special Conditions
215
Selectio-To-GTP Crosstalk Guidelines
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Section 2: Board Level Design
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Chapter 11: Design Constraints Overview
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Powering Transceivers
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Power Distribution Architecture
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Clock Sources
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Clock Traces
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Filtering
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Reference Clock
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Regulator Selection
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AC Coupling
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Coupling
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DC Coupling
226
External Capacitor Value Selection
226
Selectio to Serial Transceiver Crosstalk Guidelines
229
Chapter 12: PCB Materials and Traces
231
How Fast Is Fast
231
Dielectric Losses
231
Relative Permittivity
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Choosing the Substrate Material
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Loss Tangent
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Skin Effect and Resistive Losses
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Trace Characteristic Impedance Design
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Trace Geometry
233
Traces
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Plane Splits
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Return Currents
235
Trace Routing
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Cable
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Connectors
236
Optimal Cable Length
236
Simulating Lossy Transmission Lines
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Skew between Conductors
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Chapter 13: Design of Transitions
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Excess Capacitance and Inductance
237
Time Domain Reflectometry
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BGA Package
239
SMT Pads
239
Differential Vias
243
P/N Crossover Vias
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SMA Connectors
246
Backplane Connectors
246
Microstrip/Stripline Bends
246
Chapter 14: Guidelines and Examples
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Summary of Guidelines
251
BGA Escape Example
252
HM-Zd Design Example
252
Section 3: Appendices
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Appendix A: MGT to GTP Transceiver Design Migration
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Overview
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Primary Differences
257
Mgts Per Device
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Clocking
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Encoding Support and Clock Multipliers
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Serial Rate Support
259
Board Guidelines
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Flexibility
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Power Supply Filtering
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Other Minor Differences
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Crc
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Loopback
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Termination
263
Defining Clock Correction and Channel Bonding Sequences
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RXSTATUS Bus
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Serialization
264
Pre-Emphasis, Differential Swing, and Equalization
264
Appendix B: Oob/Beacon Signaling
267
OOB Signaling in SATA
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Beacon Signaling in PCI Express
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Appendix C: 8B/10B Valid Characters
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Appendix C: 8B/10B Valid Characters
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Appendix C: 8B/10B Valid Characters
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Appendix C: 8B/10B Valid Characters
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Appendix D: DRP Address Map of the GTP_DUAL Tile
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DRP Address by Attribute
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DRP Address by Bit Location
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Appendix E: Low Latency Design
309
GTP Transmitter Latency
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GTP Receiver Latency
310
Appendix F: Advanced Clocking
313
Example
315
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