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Tsi578 User Manual
June 6, 2016
Integrated Device Technology
www.idt.com
2.
Serial RapidIO Interface
This chapter describes the serial RapidIO interface of the Tsi578. It includes the following information:
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“Maintenance Packets” on page 53
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“Multicast Event Control Symbols” on page 55
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“Reset Control Symbol Processing” on page 57
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“Data Integrity Checking” on page 57
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“Hot Insertion and Hot Extraction” on page 59
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“Loss of Lane Synchronization” on page 62
2.1
Overview
The Tsi578 provides high-performance serial RapidIO interfaces that are used to provide connectivity
for control plane and data plane applications. All RapidIO interfaces are compliant with the
RapidIO
Interconnect Specification (Revision 1.3)
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This section describes the transport layer features common to all Tsi578 RapidIO interfaces. The
RapidIO interface has the following capabilities:
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RapidIO packet and control symbol transmission
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RapidIO packet and control symbol reception
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Register access through RapidIO maintenance requests
2.1.1
Features
The following features are supported:
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Up to eight 4x-mode or up to 16 1x-mode serial RapidIO ports operating at up to 3.125 Gbits/s
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Per-port destination ID look-up table, used to direct packets through the switch
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RapidIO error management extensions, including both hardware and software error recovery
(described in
RapidIO Interconnect Specification (Revision 1.3)
Part 8)
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Low latency forwarding of the multicast control symbol
This is a IDT-specific implementation. The
RapidIO Interconnect Specification (Revision 1.3)
standard implementation of look-up tables is also supported.