UG024 (v3.0) February 22, 2007 www.xilinx.com RocketIO™ Transceiver User Guide
RocketIO™ Transceiver User Guide
UG024 (v3.0) February 22, 2007
The following table shows the revision history for this document.
Date Version Revision
11/20/01 1.0 • Initial Xilinx release.
01/23/02 1.1 • Updated for typographical and other errors found during review.
02/25/02 1.2 • Part of Virtex-II Pro™ Developer’s Kit (March 2002 Release)
07/11/02 1.3 • Updated “PCB Design Requirements”. Added Appendix A, “RocketIO Transceiver
Timing Model.” Changed Cell Models to Appendix B.
09/27/02 1.4 • Added additional IMPORTANT NOTE regarding ISE revisions at the beginning of
Chapter 1
• Added material in section “CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check).”
• Added section “Other Important Design Notes.”
• New pre-emphasis eye diagrams in section “Pre-emphasis Techniques.”
• Numerous parameter additions previously shown as “TBD” in “MGT Package Pins.”
10/16/02 1.5 • Corrected pinouts for FF1152 package, device column 2VP20/30, LOC Constraints
rows GT_X0_Y0 and GT_X0_Y1.
• Corrected section “CRC Latency” and Table 2-20 to express latency in terms of
TXUSRCLK and RXUSRCLK cycles.
• Corrected sequence of packet elements in Figure 2-30.
11/20/02 1.6 • Table 1-2: Added support for XAUI Fibre Channel.
• Corrected max PCB drive distance to 40 inches.
• Reorganized content sequence in Chapter 2, “Digital Design Considerations.”
• Table 1-5: Additional information in RXCOMMADET definition.
• Code corrections in VHDL Clock templates.
• “Data Path Latency” section expanded and reformatted.
• Corrections in clocking scheme drawings. Addition of drawings showing clocking
schemes without using DCM.
• Table B-1: Corrections in Valid Data Characters.
• Table 3-4: Data added.
• Corrections made to power regulator schematic, Figure 3-7.
• Table 2-23: Data added/corrected.
12/12/02 1.6.1 • Added clarifying text regarding trace length vs. width.
03/25/03 2.0 • Reorganized existing content
• Added new content
• Added Appendix C, “Related Online Documents”
• Added “Index”
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