Why does the Intel Agilex® 7 F-Tile PMA/FEC Direct PHY Intel® FPGA IP Design Example fail to simulate when using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software version 23.1?

Description

Due to a problem in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software version 23.1, the Intel Agilex® 7 F-Tile PMA/FEC Direct PHY Intel® FPGA IP configured to generate an FHT PAM4 4 400G 4 PMA Lanes RSFEC 544/514 design example will fail to simulate.

Resolution

To workaround this problem in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Edition Software version 23.1, change the select FHT loopback mode attribute from DISABLED to SERIAL_EXT_LOOPBACK mode and re-generate the IP.

This problem is fixed in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software version 23.2.