AN 808: Migration Guidelines from Intel® Arria® 10 to Intel® Stratix® 10 for 10G Ethernet Subsystem

ID 683141
Date 11/20/2019
Public

Migration Guidelines from Intel® Arria® 10 to Intel® Stratix® 10 for 10G Ethernet Subsystem

The Low Latency (LL) Ethernet 10G (10GbE) Media Access Controller (MAC) Intel® FPGA IP core includes Intel® Stratix® 10 and Intel® Arria® 10 design examples that are compliant with IEEE 802.3-2008 specification. The interfaces between Intel® Stratix® 10 LL 10GbE MAC Intel® FPGA IP core and physical interface (PHY) IP core are different compared to Intel® Arria® 10 LL 10GbE MAC Intel® FPGA IP core with PHY IP core.

These migration guidelines are meant for those are familiar with Intel® Arria® 10 LL 10GbE MAC Intel® FPGA IP core. Use these migration guidelines if you want to migrate your Intel® Arria® 10 LL 10GbE MAC design to use Intel® Stratix® 10 devices.

Figure 1.  Intel® Stratix® 10 LL 10GbE MAC System
Table 1.  Comparison between Intel® Stratix® 10 and Intel® Arria® 10 Design Examples for LL 10GbE MAC Intel® FPGA IP Core
Design Example MAC Variant PHY Development Kit Intel® Arria® 10 Intel® Stratix® 10
10GBASE-R Ethernet 10G Native PHY (Support L/H-tile Native PHY for Intel® Stratix® 10) Intel® Arria® 10/ Intel® Stratix® 10 GX Transceiver Signal Integrity Yes Yes
1G/2.5G Ethernet with 1588 1G/2.5G 1G/2.5G/5G/10G Multi-rate Ethernet PHY Intel® Arria® 10/ Intel® Stratix® 10 GX Transceiver Signal Integrity Yes Yes
1G/2.5G/10G Ethernet 1G/2.5G/10G 1G/2.5G/5G/10G Multi-rate Ethernet PHY Intel® Arria® 10/ Intel® Stratix® 10 GX Transceiver Signal Integrity Yes Yes
10GBASE-R Register Mode Ethernet 10G Native PHY Intel® Arria® 10 GX Transceiver Signal Integrity Yes Not available
XAUI Ethernet 10G XAUI PHY Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA Yes Not available
1G/10G Ethernet 1G/10G 1G/10GbE and 10GBASE-KR PHY Intel® Arria® 10 GX Transceiver Signal Integrity Yes Not available
1G/10G Ethernet with 1588 1G/10G 1G/10GbE and 10GBASE-KR PHY Intel® Arria® 10 GX Transceiver Signal Integrity Yes Not available
10M/100M/1G/10G Ethernet 10M/100M/1G/10G 1G/10GbE and 10GBASE-KR PHY Intel® Arria® 10 GX Transceiver Signal Integrity Yes Not available
10M/100M/1G/10G Ethernet with 1588 10M/100M/1G/10G 1G/10GbE and 10GBASE-KR PHY Intel® Arria® 10 GX Transceiver Signal Integrity Yes Not available
1G/2.5G Ethernet 1G/2.5G 1G/2.5G/5G/10G Multi-rate Ethernet PHY Intel® Arria® 10 GX Transceiver Signal Integrity Yes Not available
10G USXGMII Ethernet 1G/2.5G/5G/10G (USXGMII) 1G/2.5G/5G/10G Multi-rate Ethernet PHY Intel® Arria® 10 GX Transceiver Signal Integrity Yes Not available
Note: You can access the listed design examples through the LL 10GbE MAC parameter editor in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software.