Article ID: 000075705 Content Type: Troubleshooting Last Reviewed: 06/08/2015

Why do I see excessive receiver latency when using the Low Latency or Native PHY, 10G PCS Basic mode on Stratix V GX or Arria V GZ devices?

Environment

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    Description

    You may see excessive receiver latency when using the Low Latency or Native PHY, 10G PCS Basic mode on Stratix® V GX or Arria® V GZ devices under the following conditions:

    • Bit Slip is selected as the Word Alignment mode
    • The gearbox ratios are configured for 66:40, 64:32, or 50:40

    For the transceiver PHY configurations above, the round-trip loopback latency may increase by 1-23 additional parallel clock cycles if the rx_bitslip port is toggled more than FPGA fabric interface width -1 times.

    Resolution

    To work around this problem, you should not toggle the rx_bitslip port more than FPGA fabric interface width -1 times for the transceiver PHY configurations above.

     

    Altera recommends separating rx_bitslip pulses by at least 20 parallel clock cycles to account for transceiver PCS pipeline latency.

     

    An alternative workaround is to use the rx_clkslip function on the Native PHY.

    Related Products

    This article applies to 4 products

    Stratix® V GS FPGA
    Stratix® V GT FPGA
    Stratix® V GX FPGA
    Arria® V GZ FPGA