All transceiver channels feature a dedicated Physical Medium Attachment
(PMA) and a hardened Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS).
- The PMA provides primary interfacing capabilities to physical channels.
- The PCS typically handles encoding/decoding, word alignment, and other pre-processing functions before transferring data to the FPGA core fabric.
A transceiver channel consists of a PMA and a PCS block. Most transceiver banks have 6 channels. There are some transceiver banks that contain only 4 channels.
A wide variety of bonded and non-bonded data rate configurations is possible using a highly configurable clock distribution network.
Figure 5. Device Chip Overview for
Cyclone® 10 GX DevicesThis figure is a graphical representation of a top view of the silicon die, which
corresponds to a reverse view for flip chip packages. Different
Cyclone® 10 GX devices may have different floorplans
than the one shown in this figure.