
Transceiver Channel Reconfiguration
You can use channel reconfiguration to dynamically reconfigure the channel in a transceiver PHY IP core.
Among the settings that you can change dynamically are the data rate and interface width.
You can reconfigure the channels in the following ways:
• Reconfigure the CDR of the receiver channel.
• Enable and disable all static PCS sub-blocks.
• Select an alternate PLL within the transceiver block to supply a different clock to the transceiver clock
generation block.
• Reconfigure the TX local clock divider with a 1, 2, 4, or 8 division factor.
Every transmitter channel has a clock divider. When you reconfigure these clock dividers, ensure that the
functional mode of the transceiver channel supports the reconfigured data rate.
Transceiver Interface Reconfiguration
You can reconfigure the transceiver interfaces by reconfiguring the FPGA fabric transceiver channel data
width that includes PCS-PLD and PMA-PCS interfaces.
For example, you can reconfigure the custom PHY IP to enable or disable the 8B/10B encoder/decoder.
There is no limit to the number of functional modes you can reconfigure the transceiver channel to if the
various clocks involved support the transition. When you switch the custom PHY IP from one function
mode to a different function mode, you may need to reconfigure the FPGA fabric-transceiver channel data
width, enable or disable PCS sub-blocks, or both, to comply with the protocol requirements.
Channel reconfiguration only affects the channel involved in the reconfiguration (the transceiver channel
specified by the unique logical channel address), without affecting the remaining transceiver channels
controlled by the same Transceiver Reconfiguration Controller. PLL reconfiguration affects all channels
that are currently using that PLL for transmission.
Channel reconfiguration from either a transmitter-only configuration to a receiver-only configuration or
vice versa is not allowed.
Altera Corporation
Dynamic Reconfiguration in Cyclone V Devices
7-5
Transceiver Channel Reconfiguration
CV-53007
2013.05.06