Arria® V Device Handbook: Volume 2: Transceivers

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Date 5/29/2020
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Document Table of Contents

1.1.1. Transceiver Banks

The columns of Arria V transceivers are categorized in banks of six channels. The transceiver bank boundaries are important for clocking resources, bonding channels, and fitting. In some package variations, some transceiver banks are reduced to three channels. In the Arria V GX/GT/SX/ST, there are fundamentally two types of transceiver channels; 6-Gbps and 10-Gbps. By contrast, every Arria V GZ transceiver channel supports operation up to 12.5 Gbps data rates.

Figure 2. Transceiver Bank and PCIe Hard IP Location for GX Devices (1), (2)
Table 2.  Hard IP and Channel Resources in GX Variants
GX Variants Left Hard IP Right Hard IP Total Channels
Base None None 9
Mainstream 1 None 9, 18
Extended Feature 1 1 24, 36
Figure 3. Transceiver Bank and PCIe Hard IP Location for GT Devices
Table 3.  Hard IP and Channel Resources in GT Variants
GT Variants Left Hard IP Right Hard IP Total Channels
Mainstream 1 None 9, 18
Extended Feature 1 1 24, 36
Figure 4. Transceiver Bank and PCIe Hard IP Location for GZ Devices


Figure 5. Transceiver Bank Location for SX Devices (9 channels)SX devices with 9 channels do not have PCIe Hard IP blocks.
Figure 6. Transceiver Bank and PCIe Hard IP Location for SX Devices (12,18, 30 channels) (1)
Table 4.  Hard IP and Channel Resources in SX Variants
SX Variants Left Hard IP Right Hard IP Total Channels
Mainstream None 1 12
1 None 18 (F1517 package)
Extended Feature 1 1 18 (F1152 package)
1 1 30
Figure 7. Transceiver Bank and PCIe Hard IP Location for ST Devices(1), (2), (3)
Table 5.  Hard IP and Channel Resources in ST Variants
ST Variants Left Hard IP Right Hard IP Total Channels
Mainstream None 1 12
Extended Feature 1 1 18
1 1 30
Table 6.  Usage Restrictions on Specific Channels Across Device Variants
Device Variants Channel Location Usage Restriction
GX, SX Ch1, Ch2 of GXB_L01

Ch1, Ch2 of GXB_R01

No support for PCS with phase compensation FIFO in registered mode (for example, CPRI or deterministic latency)
ST, GT Ch1, Ch2 of GXB_L0 and GXB_R01 No support for PCS with phase compensation FIFO in registered mode (for example, CPRI or deterministic latency)
ST Ch0, Ch1, Ch2 of GXB_L0 and GXB_R0 No PMA Direct Support
GT Ch0, Ch1, Ch2 of GXB_L0 and GXB_R01 No PMA Direct Support
1 The PMA clock of Channel 1 and Channel 2 of GBX_L0 and GXB_R0 cannot be routed out of the FPGA fabric for Arria V GX, GT, ST, and SX devices.