Intel® Arria® 10 Avalon® Streaming with SR-IOV IP for PCIe* User Guide

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Document Table of Contents x
1. Datasheet 2. Getting Started with the SR-IOV Design Example 3. Parameter Settings 4. Physical Layout 5. Interfaces and Signal Descriptions 6. Registers 7. Programming and Testing SR-IOV Bridge MSI Interrupts 8. Error Handling 9. IP Core Architecture 10. Design Implementation 11. Debugging 12. Document Revision History A. Transaction Layer Packet (TLP) Header Formats B. Intel® Arria® 10 Avalon-ST with SR-IOV Interface for PCIe Solutions User Guide Archive
1. Datasheet x
1.1. Intel® Arria® 10 Avalon® -ST Interface with SR-IOV for PCI Express* Datasheet 1.2. Release Information 1.3. Device Family Support 1.4. Debug Features 1.5. IP Core Verification 1.6. Performance and Resource Utilization 1.7. Recommended Speed Grades for SR-IOV Interface
1.1. Intel® Arria® 10 Avalon® -ST Interface with SR-IOV for PCI Express* Datasheet x
1.1.1. SR-IOV Features
1.5. IP Core Verification x
1.5.1. Compatibility Testing Environment
2. Getting Started with the SR-IOV Design Example x
2.1. Directory Structure for Intel® Arria® 10 SR-IOV Design Example 2.2. Design Components for the SR-IOV Design Example 2.3. Generating the SR-IOV Design Example 2.4. Compiling and Simulating the Design for SR-IOV
3. Parameter Settings x
3.1. Parameters 3.2. Intel® Arria® 10 Avalon-ST Settings 3.3. Intel® Arria® 10 SR-IOV System Settings 3.4. Base Address Register (BAR) Settings 3.5. SR-IOV Device Identification Registers 3.6. Intel® Arria® 10 Interrupt Capabilities 3.7. Physical Function TLP Processing Hints (TPH) 3.8. Address Translation Services (ATS) 3.9. PCI Express and PCI Capabilities Parameters 3.10. PHY Characteristics 3.11. Example Designs
3.9. PCI Express and PCI Capabilities Parameters x
3.9.1. PCI Express and PCI Capabilities 3.9.2. Error Reporting 3.9.3. Link Capabilities 3.9.4. Slot Capabilities 3.9.5. Power Management
4. Physical Layout x
4.1. Hard IP Block Placement In Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX Devices 4.2. Hard IP Block Placement In Intel® Arria® 10 Devices 4.3. Channel and Pin Placement for the Gen1, Gen2, and Gen3 Data Rates 4.4. Channel Placement and fPLL and ATX PLL Usage for the Gen3 Data Rate 4.5. PCI Express Gen3 Bank Usage Restrictions
5. Interfaces and Signal Descriptions x
5.1. Avalon-ST TX Interface 5.2. Component-Specific Avalon-ST Interface Signals 5.3. Avalon-ST RX Interface 5.4. BAR Hit Signals 5.5. Configuration Status Interface 5.6. Clock Signals 5.7. Function-Level Reset (FLR) Interface 5.8. SR-IOV Interrupt Interface 5.9. Configuration Extension Bus (CEB) Interface 5.10. Implementing MSI-X Interrupts 5.11. Control Shadow Interface 5.12. Local Management Interface (LMI) Signals 5.13. Reset, Status, and Link Training Signals 5.14. Hard IP Reconfiguration Interface 5.15. Serial Data Signals 5.16. Test Signals 5.17. PIPE Interface Signals 5.18. Intel® Arria® 10 Development Kit Conduit Interface
5.9. Configuration Extension Bus (CEB) Interface x
5.9.1. Vital Product Data (VPD) Capability
5.9.1. Vital Product Data (VPD) Capability x
5.9.1.1. Determine the Pointer Address of an External Capability Register 5.9.1.2. VPD Capability Implementation
6. Registers x
6.1. Addresses for Physical and Virtual Functions 6.2. Correspondence between Configuration Space Registers and the PCIe Specification 6.3. PCI and PCI Express Configuration Space Registers 6.4. MSI Registers 6.5. MSI-X Capability Structure 6.6. Power Management Capability Structure 6.7. PCI Express Capability Structure 6.8. Advanced Error Reporting (AER) Enhanced Capability Header Register 6.9. Uncorrectable Error Status Register 6.10. Uncorrectable Error Mask Register 6.11. Uncorrectable Error Severity Register 6.12. Correctable Error Status Register 6.13. Correctable Error Mask Register 6.14. Advanced Error Capabilities and Control Register 6.15. Header Log Registers 0-3 6.16. SR-IOV Virtualization Extended Capabilities Registers 6.17. Virtual Function Registers
6.3. PCI and PCI Express Configuration Space Registers x
6.3.1. Type 0 Configuration Space Registers 6.3.2. PCI and PCI Express Configuration Space Register Content 6.3.3. Interrupt Line and Interrupt Pin Register
6.16. SR-IOV Virtualization Extended Capabilities Registers x
6.16.1. SR-IOV Virtualization Extended Capabilities Registers Address Map 6.16.2. ARI Enhanced Capability Header 6.16.3. SR-IOV Enhanced Capability Registers 6.16.4. Initial VFs and Total VFs Registers 6.16.5. VF Device ID Register 6.16.6. Page Size Registers 6.16.7. VF Base Address Registers (BARs) 0-5 6.16.8. Secondary PCI Express Extended Capability Header 6.16.9. Lane Status Registers 6.16.10. Transaction Processing Hints (TPH) Requester Enhanced Capability Header
7. Programming and Testing SR-IOV Bridge MSI Interrupts x
7.1. Setting Up and Verifying MSI Interrupts 7.2. Masking MSI Interrupts 7.3. Dropping a Pending MSI Interrupt
8. Error Handling x
8.1. Physical Layer Errors 8.2. Data Link Layer Errors 8.3. Transaction Layer Errors 8.4. Error Reporting and Data Poisoning 8.5. Uncorrectable and Correctable Error Status Bits
9. IP Core Architecture x
9.1. PCI Express Protocol Stack 9.2. Data Link Layer 9.3. Physical Layer 9.4. Top-Level Interfaces 9.5. Intel® Arria® 10 Hard IP for PCI Express with Single-Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
9.4. Top-Level Interfaces x
9.4.1. Avalon-ST Interface 9.4.2. Clocks and Reset 9.4.3. Interrupts 9.4.4. PIPE
10. Design Implementation x
10.1. Making Pin Assignments to Assign I/O Standard to Serial Data Pins 10.2. Recommended Reset Sequence to Avoid Link Training Issues 10.3. SDC Timing Constraints
11. Debugging x
11.1. Setting Up Simulation 11.2. Simulation Fails To Progress Beyond Polling.Active State 11.3. Hardware Bring-Up Issues 11.4. Link Training 11.5. Creating a Signal Tap Debug File to Match Your Design Hierarchy 11.6. Use Third-Party PCIe Analyzer 11.7. BIOS Enumeration Issues
11.1. Setting Up Simulation x
11.1.1. Changing Between Serial and PIPE Simulation 11.1.2. Using the PIPE Interface for Gen1 and Gen2 Variants 11.1.3. Viewing the Important PIPE Interface Signals 11.1.4. Disabling the Scrambler for Gen1 and Gen2 Simulations 11.1.5. Disabling 8B/10B Encoding and Decoding for Gen1 and Gen2 Simulations
12. Document Revision History x
12.1. Document Revision History for the Intel® Arria® 10 Avalon® Streaming with SR-IOV IP for PCIe* User Guide
A. Transaction Layer Packet (TLP) Header Formats x
A.1. TLP Packet Formats without Data Payload A.2. TLP Packet Formats with Data Payload
1. Datasheet
2. Getting Started with the SR-IOV Design Example
3. Parameter Settings
4. Physical Layout
5. Interfaces and Signal Descriptions
6. Registers
7. Programming and Testing SR-IOV Bridge MSI Interrupts
8. Error Handling
9. IP Core Architecture
10. Design Implementation
11. Debugging
12. Document Revision History
A. Transaction Layer Packet (TLP) Header Formats
B. Intel® Arria® 10 Avalon-ST with SR-IOV Interface for PCIe Solutions User Guide Archive

9.5. Intel® Arria® 10 Hard IP for PCI Express with Single-Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)

The Intel® Arria® 10 Hard IP for PCI Express with SR-IOV bypasses the Configuration Space and base address register (BAR) matching logic of the Hard IP. The SR-IOV bridge implements the following functions in soft logic:

  • Configuration spaces for eight PCIe Physical Functions and 2048 Virtual Functions
  • BAR checking logic
  • Interrupt generation
  • Error messages for Advanced Error Reporting (AER)
  • Address Translation Services (ATS)
  • TLP Processing Hints (TPH)
  • Control Shadow Interface to read the current settings for some of the VF Control Register fields in the PCI and PCI Express Configuration Spaces

The SR-IOV processes memory requests, Completions and messages received from the link. It passes them to the Application Layer unmodified, using the Avalon-ST RX interface. The SR-IOV Bridge does not maintain any state for requests outstanding on the Master or Target sides. The RX interface delivers Completion TLPs to the Application Layer in the same order as received from the link. It does not match Completion TLPs with the outstanding requests from the Application Layer.

The following figure illustrates the SR-IOV Bridge logic and its interfaces to the Intel® Arria® 10 Hard IP for PCI Express and Application Layer.

Figure 55. Block Diagram of the Intel® Arria® 10 Hard IP for PCI Express IP with the SR-IOV Bridge

SR-IOV Bridge Logic Details

Soft logic in the SR-IOV Bridge decodes Configuration Space transactions on Avalon-ST interface via Configuration Bypass mode and forwards them to the internal Configuration Block. The Configuration Block implements the following logic:

  • Processes incoming Configuration Space TLPs and generates Completions
  • Includes Configuration Space registers of eight Physical Functions and 2048 Virtual Functions.
  • Generates MSI, MSI-X, and Legacy Interrupts (INTx Assert and Deassert)
  • Generates error messages for AER
  • Multiplexes the following data sources to on the Avalon-ST TX interface:
    • Master-side requests and Target-side Completions generated by the Application Layer
    • UR Completions from the BAR Check block for Memory Read Requests
  • Transmits Memory Read and Memory Write received on TX Avalon-ST interface from the Application Layer. The core forwards these requests to the host as is, without any checking for errors. Application Layer logic must make sure the transmitted memory requests satisfy all PCI Express requirements.

BAR Logic Details

The BAR block includes the following functions:

  • Compares the addresses of received memory transactions to the BAR settings for the targeted function
  • Identifies PF and VF BAR accesses
  • Discards all memory transactions that are not in the address range of any of the configured BARs
  • Generates Unsupported Request (UR) Completions for requests that fail the BAR check

Local Management Interface (LMI)

SR-IOV LMI logic accesses Configuration Space Registers of all Physical and Virtual Functions. The LMI logic accepts read and write requests from the Application Layer and directs requests to either the LMI interface of the Hard IP or the Configuration Registers in the Configuration Block.

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