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AR# 55366

Design Advisory for 7 Series FPGA GTX/GTH/GTP Transceivers: Transceiver Wizard Sets Suboptimal RX Termination Use Modes

Description

The RX termination use modes are covered in the RX Analog Front End section of the 7 Series FPGAs GTX/GTH Transceivers User Guide (UG476) and 7 Series FPGAs GTP Transceivers User Guide (UG482), and the suggested protocols for the various termination use modes are also listed there.

Some of these protocols, the 7 Series FPGAs Transceivers Wizard v2.5 or earlier, in Vivado 2013.1/ISE 14.5 or earlier, may have the termination set suboptimally. 

In addition, some IP were generated with the same suboptimal settings.

Solution

Using a suboptimal RX termination may cause poor performance.

This will be fixed in the next release of the 7 Series FPGAs Transceivers Wizard, 2013.2 for Vivado and 14.6 for ISE. 

The recommended termination use modes are in the user guide RX Analog Front End section.

The following section describes the attributes affected, the GT wizard protocols affected, the IP affected, and information on work-arounds.

Attributes affected
RX_CM_SEL, which controls the mode of the RX termination, such as GND, AVTT, programmable, or floating.
RX_CM_TRIM, which controls the programmable voltage level in programmable mode.
 
GTH includes:
RXDFEAGCTRL.[4:3]

GTP includes:
 RXLPM_IPCM_CFG
 RXLPM_INCM_CFG

GTX includes:
PMA_RSV2[7:6]
PMA_RSV2[4]

See the users guide's RX Analog Front End section for details on the settings to be used for each use mode/protocol.  The RX_CM_SEL[1:0] attribute was set to GND or Floating (01 or 10) when it should have been set to programmable (11) with RM_CM_TRIM[3:0] set to 800 mv (1010).

GTH/GTP Wizard protocols affected
CAUI, CEI11, CPRI, GigE, JESD204, RXAUI, XAUI, XLAUI, Aurora 8b10b multi lane 2-byte, Aurora 8b10b multi lane 4-byte, Aurora 8b10b single lane 2-byte, Aurora 8b10b single lane 4-byte, OC48, OC192, OTL 3 4, and OTU 4

GTX wizard protocol affected
3G-SDI 
 
Answer Record Numbers for Affected IP:
 
Protocol GTH GTP GTX
JESD204 (Xilinx Answer 55857) (Xilinx Answer 55857)
CPRI (Xilinx Answer 55863) (Xilinx Answer 55863)
RXAUI (Xilinx Answer 55840) (Xilinx Answer 55840)
XAUI (Xilinx Answer 55837) (Xilinx Answer 55837)
Aurora 64B/66B (Xilinx Answer 55849)
QSGMII (Xilinx Answer 55841)
GigaBit Ethernet
 (Xilinx Answer 55367) (Xilinx Answer 55367)
 
Where no answer record is listed, the IP is not affected.

Workarounds
Each IP listed above has an answer record describing how to make the recommended attribute changes. 

For the GT wizard templates, the workaround is to set the attribute values in the individual GTHE2_CHANNEL instantiations. 

For GTH Use Mode 3, set:
1. RX_CM_SEL[1:0]  to 2'b11 (programmable)
2. RX_CM_TRIM[3:0]  to 4'b1010 (800 mv)
3. RXDFEAGCTRL.[4:3] to  2'b10

It is possible that some GTH protocols would fall into Use Mode 2.  Set:
1. RX_CM_SEL[1:0]  to 2'b00 (AVTT)
2. RXDFEAGCTRL.[4:3] to  2'b10

For GTP, set:
1. RX_CM_SEL[1:0]  to 2'b11 (programmable)
2. RX_CM_TRIM[3:0]  to 4'b1010 (800 mv)
3. RXLPM_INCM_CFG to 1'b1
4. RXLPM_IPCM_CFG to 1'b0

For Use Mode 2, set:
1. RX_CM_SEL[1:0]  to 2'b00 (AVTT)
2. RXLPM_INCM_CFG to 1'b1
3. RXLPM_IPCM_CFG to 1'b0

For GTX, set:
1. RX_CM_SEL[1:0]  to 2'b11 (programmable)
2. RX_CM_TRIM[2:0]  to 3'b010 (800 mv)
3.PMA_RSV2[4]  to 1'b1 (part of the 800 mv setting)
4. PMA_RSV2[7:6]  to 2'b01
 
In the example designs the GT instantiations can be found in the core_name_gt.v[hd] file.

Revision History
05/06/2013 - Initial release

Linked Answer Records

Master Answer Records

Answer Number Answer Title Version Found Version Resolved
51456 Design Advisory Master Answer Record for Artix-7 FPGA N/A N/A
42944 Design Advisory Master Answer Record for Virtex-7 FPGA N/A N/A
42946 Design Advisory Master Answer Record for Kintex-7 FPGA N/A N/A

Child Answer Records

Answer Number Answer Title Version Found Version Resolved
55857 JESD204B v4.0 or earlier - Updated RX Termination settings for 7 Series FPGA GTP and GTH N/A N/A

Associated Answer Records

Answer Number Answer Title Version Found Version Resolved
55837 XAUI v11.0 - Update to RX termination for 7 Series GTP and GTH Transceivers N/A N/A
55841 QSGMII v2.0 - Update to RX termination for 7 Series GTH Transceivers N/A N/A
55863 CPRI for ISE 14.4 Update to RX termination for 7 Series GTP and GTH N/A N/A
AR# 55366
Date 06/26/2014
Status Active
Type Design Advisory
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