Preface: About This Guide; Mgt Features - Xilinx Virtex-4 RocketIO User Manual

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About This Guide
The Virtex®-4 RocketIO™ MGT User Guide provides the product designer with the detailed
technical information needed to successfully implement the RocketIO MGT in Virtex-4
Platform FPGA designs. For information on the Virtex-II Pro RocketIO and the
Virtex-II Pro X RocketIO X transceivers, see UG024, RocketIO Transceiver User Guide, and
UG035, RocketIO X Transceiver User Guide.

MGT Features

RocketIO MGTs have flexible, programmable features that allow a multi-gigabit serial
transceiver to be easily integrated into any Virtex-4 design:
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Virtex-4 RocketIO MGT User Guide
UG076 (v4.1) November 2, 2008
622 Mb/s to 6.5 Gb/s data rates
8 to 24 transceivers per FPGA
3-tap transmitter pre-emphasis (pre-equalization)
Receiver continuous time equalization
Optional on-chip AC coupled receiver
Digital oversampled receiver for data rates up to 1.25 Gb/s
Receiver signal detect and loss of signal indicator and out-of-band (OOB) signal
receiver
Transmit driver idle state for OOB signaling (both outputs at V
8B/10B encoding
No data encoding (pass-through mode) with digital receiver
Channel bonding
Flexible Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) generation and checking
Pins for transmitter and receiver termination voltage
User reconfiguration using the Dynamic Reconfiguration Port
Multiple loopback paths
NRZ signaling
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