Aurora 8B/10B Virtex-4 FX

The LogiCORE™ IP Aurora core is a high-speed serial solution based on the Aurora protocol and the Virtex®-4 FPGA RocketIO™ multi-gigabit transceivers (MGT). The core is delivered as open-source code and supports both Verilog and VHDL design environments.

The LogiCORE™ IP Aurora 8B/10B Core implements the Aurora protocol on the Virtex®-4 FX FPGA. The core can use up to 16 Virtex-4 FPGA RocketIO™ multigigabit transceivers (MGTs) running at any supported line rate to provide a low-cost, general purpose, data channel with throughput from 1.26 Gbps to over 100 Gbps.

This Guide provides information about generating a LogiCORE™ IP Aurora8B/10B core using Virtex®-4 FPGA RocketIO™ multi-gigabit transceivers. The information includes customizing and simulating the core using the provided example design, and running the design files through implementation using the Xilinx tools.