Description

This Release Notes and Known Issues Answer Record is for the Virtex-5 GTX Aurora 64B/66B Aurora v1.2, released in ISE 10.1 IP Update 2 (IP_10.1.2), and contains the following information: 

- General Information 

- New Features  

- Bug Fixes 

- Known Issues 

For installation instructions, general CORE Generator known issues, and design tools requirements, see the IP Release Notes Guide at: http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/xtp025.pdf

Solution

General Information 

- Limited testing done on hardware using production (rev 2.1) silicon in loopback mode 

- All combination of tiles not tested for multi-lanes 

- Simplex feature not supported in this release  

- Remember to set pin constraints in the aurora_example.ucf file before using the aurora_example design 

New Features  

- Support for Multi-lanes 

- ISE 10.1 design tools support 

- Enhanced Frame Generator and Frame Checker 

- Separate license for the core 

Bug Fixes 

- Updates to GTX attributes 

Known Issues 

- ES (Engineering Silicon) is no longer supported  

- If you choose GREFCLK for clocking, and receive the following error: "ERROR:LIT:440 - CLKIN of GTP_DUAL symbol "xyz" is not driven by an IBUFDS, IBUFGDS or GT", please refer to (Xilinx Answer 25316).