Chapter 1: Arria V GZ Datasheet
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Device Family Support
November 2012
Altera Corporation
Arria V GZ Hard IP for PCI Express
Device Family Support
shows the level of support offered by the Arria V GZ Hard IP for PCI
Express.
Configurations
The Arria V GZ Hard IP for PCI Express includes a full hard IP implementation of the
PCI Express stack including the following layers:
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Physical (PHY)
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Physical Media Attachment (PMA)
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Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS)
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Media Access Control (MAC)
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Data Link Layer (DL)
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Transaction Layer (TL)
Optimized for Altera devices, the Arria V GZ Hard IP for PCI Express supports all
memory, I/O, configuration, and message transactions. It has a highly optimized
Application Layer interface to achieve maximum effective throughput. You can
customize the Hard IP to meet your design requirements using either the
MegaWizard
Plug-In Manager or the Qsys design flow. When configured as an
Endpoint, the Avalon-MM Arria V GZ Hard IP for PCI Express supports memory
read and write requests and completions with or without data. In Root Port mode, the
core also supports configuration reads and writes, message transactions, legacy
interrupts, and single dword reads and writes.
Table 1–4. Device Family Support
Device Family
Support
Arria V GZ
Preliminary. The IP core is verified with preliminary timing models.
The IP core meets all functional requirements, but is still
undergoing characterization. It can be used in production designs
with caution.
Other device families
Refer to the following user guides for other device families:
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IP Compiler for PCI Express User Guide
Arria V Hard IP for PCI Express User Guide
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yclone V Hard IP for PCI Express User Guide
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