Why does the Arria® 10 PCIe* Hard IP Root Port not update AER registers when receiving a malformed completion packet?

Description

When the Arria® 10 PCIe* Hard IP is configured as a Root Port, if it sends a memory read request to the endpoint, and the endpoint returns a malformed completion packet, the root port may not update the AER register and silently drop it.

This problem has been confirmed as a silicon bug.

Resolution

To work around this problem, the user application needs to be aware of this limitation and implement a timer for non-posted TLPs sent while waiting for completion packets. User logic then needs to verify the length field value matches the actual packet length for completion packets sent by end points.

This problem is not scheduled to be fixed in a future release of the Intel® Quartus® Prime software.