TX Gearbox Operating Modes
The GTP transceiver's TX gearbox only supports the external sequence counter mode and this must
be implemented in user logic. The TX gearbox supports 2-byte and 4-byte interfaces to the FPGA
logic.
External Sequence Counter Operating Mode
As shown in
[6:0], TXDATA[31:0], and TXHEADER[2:0] inputs. A binary counter must exist in the user logic
to drive the TXSEQUENCE port. For 64B/66B encoding, the counter increments from 0 to 32 and
repeats from 0. For 64B/67B encoding, the counter increments from 0 to 66 and repeats from 0.
When using 64B/66B encoding, tie TXSQUENCE [6] to logic 0 and tie the unused TXHEADER [2]
to logic 0. The sequence counter increment ranges ({0 to 32}, {0 to 66}) are identical for 2-byte and
4-byte interfaces. However, the counter must increment once every two TXUSRCLK2 cycles when
using a 2-byte interface and every TXUSRCLK2 cycle when using a 4-byte interface.
X-Ref Target - Figure 3-8
7 Series FPGAs GTP Transceivers User Guide
UG482 (v1.9) December 19, 2016
Figure
3-8, the external sequence counter operating mode uses the TXSEQUENCE
TX Gearbox
(in 7 Series FPGAs
GTP Transceiver)
Figure 3-8: TX Gearbox in External Sequence Counter Mode
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TXDATA[15:0] or TXDATA[31:0]
TXHEADER[2:0]
TXSEQUENCE[6:0]
TX Gearbox
Design in FPGA Logic
Data Source
Pause
Sequence Counter
(0–32 or 0–66)
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