Interlaken is a scalable chip-to-chip interconnect protocol designed to enable transmission speeds from 10 Gb/s to 100 Gb/s and beyond. Using the latest SerDes technology and a flexible protocol layer, Interlaken minimizes the pin and power overhead of chip-to-chip interconnect and provides a scalable solution that can be used throughout an entire system. In addition, Interlaken uses two levels of CRC checking and a self-synchronizing data scrambler to ensure data integrity and link robustness.
Interlaken defines two mechanisms for handling flow control across the interface:
- In-band flow control
- Out-of-band flow control
The choice of using in-band or out-of-band mechanisms depends on system considerations that are beyond the scope of this document. For further information or feedback, contact AMD.
This appendix describes the out-of-band flow control (OOBFC) implemented along with the Interlaken IP core.