Why does the Intel® Stratix® 10 10GBASE-KR and 40GBASE-KR Hard PCS get stucked in sending out a PRBS pattern?

Description

When using the Intel® Stratix® 10 10GBASE-KR PHY Intel FPGA IP, the Low Latency Ethernet 10G MAC Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA IP, the Intel® Stratix® 10 Low Latency 40-Gbps Ethernet IP or the L-Tile/H-Tile Transceiver Native PHY Intel Stratix 10 FPGA IP in 10G or 40G KR modes, the hard PCS can get stucked in sending out PRBS pattern if a csr reset comes in during reconfiguration to data mode.

Resolution

To work around this problem, use Auto-Negotiation (AN) or Link Training (LT) reconfiguration to clear this state.

This problem will be fixed in a future release of the Intel® Quartus® Prime Software.