Intel Stratix 10 E-Tile Transceiver PHY User Guide

发布时间:2018/3/17

Stratix 10 E-Tile Transceiver PHY Overview

Intel? Stratix? 10 devices offer up to 144 transceivers with integrated high-speed analog signal conditioning and clock data recovery circuits for chip-to-chip, chip-to-module, and backplane applications.

Intel? Stratix? 10 devices contain a combination of GX, GXT, or GXE channels in addition to hardened IP blocks for PCI Express and Ethernet applications.

Intel? Stratix? 10 devices introduce several transceiver tile variants to support a wide variety of protocol implementations. These transceiver tile variants are L-, H-, and E-Tiles. This user guide focuses on E-Tile transceivers.

Table 1.  Transceiver Tile Variants
TileChannel TypeChannel CapabilityChannel Hard IP access
Chip-to-ChipBackplane
L-TileGX17.4 Gbps (Non-Return-to-Zero (NRZ))12.5 Gbps (NRZ)PCIe Gen3x16
GXT26.6 Gbps
H-TileGX17.4 Gbps (NRZ)17.4 Gbps (NRZ)

PCIe Gen3x16

50G/100G Ethernet MAC

GXT28.3 Gbps (NRZ)28.3 Gbps (NRZ)
E-TileGXE

30 Gbps (NRZ),

57.8 Gbps (pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4)

30 Gbps (NRZ),

57.8 Gbps (PAM4)

10G/25G/100G Ethernet MAC

Reed Solomon Forward Error Correction (RS-FEC)

In Intel? Stratix? 10 devices, the various transceiver tiles are connected to the FPGA fabric using Intel? ’s Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) technology.

Supported Features

Table 2.  Features Supported in E-Tile Transceivers
FeatureDescription
Total transceivers

24 dual mode channels per tile

NRZ - 24 channel 1 Gbps to 30 Gbps

PAM4 - 24 channel 2 Gbps to 30 Gbps

PAM4 - 12 channel 30 Gbps to 57.8 Gbps

10G/25G/100G Ethernet with optional 1588 capability + RS-FEC for EthernetHard IP

E-Tile Layout in Stratix 10 Device Variants

Intel? Stratix? 10 TX or MX FPGA configurations support E-Tile transceivers.

Intel? Stratix? 10 MX device configurations combine FPGAs with high-bandwidth memory.

Intel Stratix 10 TX H-Tile and E-Tile Configurations

Intel? Stratix? 10 TX FPGAs offer transceiver capability by combining H- and E-tile transceiver tiles. This section lists all possible TX FPGA configurations.

Figure 1.  Intel? Stratix? 10 TX Device with 1 E-Tile (top right) and 2 H-Tiles (72 Transceiver Channels)
Figure 2.  Intel? Stratix? 10 TX Device with 3 E-Tiles and 1 H-Tile (96 Transceiver Channels)
Figure 3.  Intel? Stratix? 10 TX Device with 5 E-Tiles and 1 H-Tile (144 Transceiver Channels)

There is no package migration between Intel? Stratix? 10 GX/SX and Intel? Stratix? 10 TX device families (H-Tile and E-Tile).

Stratix 10 MX H-Tile and E-Tile Configurations

Intel? Stratix? 10 MX devices combine the programmability and flexibility of Intel? Stratix? 10 FPGAs and SoCs with 3D stacked high-bandwidth memory 2 (HBM2). The dynamic random access memory (DRAM) tile is physically connected to the FPGA using Intel? ’s Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) technology.

Figure 4.  Intel? Stratix? 10 MX Device with 3 E-Tiles, 1 H-Tile (96 Transceiver Channels) and 2 HBM2

There is no package migration between Intel? Stratix? 10 MX and Intel? Stratix? 10 TX device families (H-Tile and E-Tile) or Intel? Stratix? 10 GX/SX device families.