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KRoma6
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4 years ago

Cyclone 10 GX 40GBASE support

Hello, I am designing a 40GBASE application with the Cyclone 10 GX. The XCVR transceiver user guide gives limited direction to setting up the platform designer with this protocol. First, is ther...
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Deshi_Intel
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4 years ago

Hi,


FYI. Intel doesn't offer 40G Ethernet IP on Cyclone 10 GX device.


However, we do offer 40G Ethernet IP on Arria 10 device. You can find the respective user guide doc and example design doc in below link


This is fully MAC + PHY 40G Ethernet IP where user doesn't need to worry about internal connection that interact with NativePHY IP. NativePHY IP connection will be taken care of as internal design block of the 40G Ethernet IP.


Thanks.


Regards,

dlim




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KRoma6
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4 years ago

Hello,

Thanks for the reply.

So there is support for the 40GBASE PHY but not the MAC? Do you no of any third party MAC IP providers? We already have the board design finished for the Cyclone.

Can the Arria IP be leveraged for us to create our own MAC or will this have to be done from scratch?

Thanks,

-K