Low Latency 40-Gbps Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP User Guide: Stratix® 10

ID 683600
Date 5/31/2024
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1.1. Stratix® 10 LL 40GbE IP Core Supported Features

The Stratix® 10 LL 40GbE IP core supports the following features:

  • Parameterizable through the IP Catalog available with the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software.
  • Designed to the IEEE 802.3ba-2010 High Speed Ethernet Standard available on the IEEE website (www.ieee.org).
  • Soft PCS logic that interfaces seamlessly to Intel® FPGA 10.3125 gigabits per second (Gbps) serial transceivers.
  • Standard XLAUI external interface consisting of FPGA hard serial transceiver lanes operating at 10.3125 Gbps.
  • Supports 40GBASE-KR4/CR4 PHY and forward error correction (FEC) option for interfacing to backplanes. The option implements the IEEE Backplane Ethernet Standard 802.3-2012.
    • Supports option for auto-negotiation per Clause 73.
    • Supports option for link training per Clause 72.
    • Supports option for KR-FEC per Clause 74.
    • 40GBASE-KR4/CR4 PHY based on 64B/66B encoding with data striping and alignment markers to align data from multiple lanes.
  • Supports Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) by providing an optional CDR recovered clock output signal to the device fabric.
  • Avalon Memory-Mapped (Avalon-MM) management interface to access the IP core control and status registers.
  • Avalon-ST data path interface connects to client logic with the start of frame in the most significant byte (MSB). Interface has data width 128 bits.
  • Support for jumbo packets, defined as packets greater than 1500 bytes.
  • Receive (RX) CRC removal and pass-through control.
  • Optional transmit (TX) CRC generation and insertion.
  • RX CRC checking and error reporting.
  • RX and TX preamble pass-through option for applications that require proprietary user management information transfer.
  • Optional RX strict SFD checking per IEEE specification.
  • RX malformed packet checking per IEEE specification.
  • TX automatic frame padding to meet the 64-byte minimum Ethernet frame length.
  • Received control frame type indication.
  • Unidirectional transport as defined in Clause 66 of the IEEE 802.3-2012 Ethernet Standard
  • Hardware and software reset control.
  • MAC provides RX cut-through frame processing, no RX store-and-forward capability.
  • Deficit idle counter (DIC) to maintain a 12-byte inter-packet gap (IPG) average.
  • Optional fault signaling detects and reports local fault and generates remote fault, with IEEE 802.3ba-2012 Ethernet Standard Clause 66 support.
  • Optional access to Native PHY Debug Master Endpoint (NPDME) for serial link debugging.
  • Programmable ready latency of 0 or 3 clock cycles for Avalon-ST TX interface.
  • Optional statistics counters.

For a detailed specification of the Ethernet protocol refer to the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Standard.