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UltraScale™ devices provide the best price/performance/watt at 20 nm and include the
highest signal processing bandwidth in a mid-range device, next-generation transceivers, and
low-cost packaging for an optimum blend of capability and cost-effectiveness. The family is ideal
for packet processing in 100G networking and data centers applications as well as DSP-intensive
processing needed in next-generation medical imaging, 8k4k video, and heterogeneous wireless
infrastructure.
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Ult™ MPSoC devices provide 64-bit processor scalability while combining real-
time control with soft and hard engines for graphics, video, waveform, and packet processing.
Integrating an ARM
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-based system for advanced analytics and on-chip programmable logic for
task acceleration creates unlimited possibilities for applications including 5G Wireless, next
generation ADAS, and Industrial Internet-of-Things.
This user guide describes the UltraScale architecture GTM transceivers and is part of the
UltraScale architecture documentation suite available at:
Features
The GTM transceiver in the Ult FPGA is a high performance transceiver, supporting line
rates between 9.8 Gb/s and 58 Gb/s. Based on the available PLL divider configurations in the
GTM transceivers, the following line rates are supported:
• PAM4 modulation:
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58 Gb/s – 39.2 Gb/s
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29 Gb/s – 19.6 Gb/s
• NRZ modulation:
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29 Gb/s – 19.6 Gb/s
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14.5 Gb/s – 9.8 Gb/s
The GTM transceiver is Xilinx’s first PAM4 enabled transceiver that is highly configurable and
tightly integrated with the programmable logic resources of the FPGA. The table below
summarizes the features by functional group that support a wide variety of applications.
Table 1: GTM Transceiver Features
Group
Feature
PCS
KP4 Reed-Solomon forward error correction (RS-FEC) for up to 2 x 58 Gb/s or 1 x 116 electrical and optical links
PRBS generator and checker
Programmable FPGA logic interface
Chapter 1: Transceiver and Tool Overview
UG581 (v1.0) January 4, 2019
Virtex Ult GTM Transceivers
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