Why does the Agilex™ 7 F-Tile Ethernet IP not correctly support the unidirectional mode of operation for data rates other than 10GE, the Tx datapath is unusable when the Rx datapath link is broken or under reset?

Description

Due to a problem in the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software version 24.3 and earlier, the Agilex™ 7 F-Tile Ethernet IP, when configured to data rates other than 10GE with Link Fault Generation Option being set to Unidirectional, does not correctly respond to local faults. The TX datapath is also unusable when the RX datapath link is broken or under reset. 

Resolution

This problem is scheduled to be fixed in a future version of the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software.

A patch is available to fix this problem for the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 24.2.
Download and install patch 0.40 for version 24.2 from the files below.