Arria® V Device Handbook: Volume 2: Transceivers

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Date 5/29/2020
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3.2. User-Coded Reset Controller

You must implement external reset controller logic (user-coded reset controller) if you disable the embedded reset controller to initialize the transceiver physical coding sublayer (PCS) and physical medium attachment (PMA) blocks.

You can implement a user-coded reset controller with one of the following:

  • Using your own Verilog/VHDL code to implement the reset sequence
  • Using the Quartus II IP Catalog, which provides a ready-made reset controller IP to place your own Verilog/VHDL code

When using manual mode, you must create a user-coded reset controller to manage the input signals.

Note: You must disable the embedded reset controller before using the user-coded reset controller.
Note: The embedded reset controller can only be disabled for non-protocol transceiver PHY IPs, such as 10GBASE-R PHY, custom PHY, low latency PHY and deterministic latency PHY. Native PHY IP does not have an embedded reset controller, so you must implement your own reset logic.

If you implement your own reset controller, consider the following:

  • The user-coded reset controller must be level sensitive (active high)
  • The user-coded reset controller does not depend on phy_mgmt_clk_reset
  • You must provide a clock and reset to the reset controller logic
  • The internal signals of the PHY IP embedded reset controller are configured as ports
  • You can hold the transceiver channels in reset by asserting the appropriate reset control signals
Note:

You must have a valid and stable ATX PLL reference clock before deasserting the pll_powerdown and mgmt_rst_reset signals for successful ATX PLL calibration.

ATX PLLs are available in Arria V GZ devices.