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General Description
IP Compiler for PCI Express User Guide August 2014 Altera Corporation
■ Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS)
■ Media Access Control (MAC)
■ Data link
■ Transaction
Optimized for Altera devices, the hard IP implementation supports all memory, I/O,
configuration, and message transactions. The IP cores have a highly optimized
application interface to achieve maximum effective throughput. Because the compiler
is parameterizeable, you can customize the IP cores to meet your design
requirements.Table 1–5 lists the configurations that are available for the IP Compiler
for PCI Express hard IP implementation.
Table 1–6 lists the Total RX buffer space, Retry buffer size, and Maximum Payload
size for device families that include the hard IP implementation. You can find these
parameters on the Buffer Setup page of the parameter editor.
Table 1–5. Hard IP Configurations for the IP Compiler for PCI Express in Quartus II Software Version 11.0
Device Link Rate (Gbps) ×1 ×2 (1) ×4 ×8
Avalon Streaming (Avalon-ST) Interface
Arria II GX
2.5 yes no yes yes (2)
5.0 nononono
Arria II GZ
2.5 yes no yes yes (2)
5.0 yes no yes (2) no
Cyclone IV GX
2.5 yes yes yes no
5.0 nononono
Stratix IV GX
2.5 yes no yes yes
5.0 yes no yes yes
Avalon-MM Interface using Qsys Design Flow (3)
Arria II GX 2.5 yes no yes no
Cyclone IV GX 2.5 yes yes yes no
Stratix IV GX
2.5 yes no yes yes
5.0 yes no yes no
Notes to Table 1–5:
(1) For devices that do not offer a ×2 initial configuration, you can use a ×4 configuration with the upper two lanes left unconnected at the device
pins. The link will negotiate to ×2 if the attached device is ×2 native or capable of negotiating to ×2.
(2) The ×8 support uses a 128-bit bus at 125 MHz.
(3) The Qsys design flow supports the generation of endpoint variations only.
Table 1–6. IP Compiler for PCI Express Buffer and Payload Information (Part 1 of 2)
Devices Family Total RX Buffer Space Retry Buffer Max Payload Size
Arria II GX 4 KBytes 2 KBytes 256 Bytes
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