PCI Express Integrated - UG1085

Zynq UltraScale+ Device Technical Reference Manual (UG1085)

Document ID
UG1085
Release Date
2023-12-21
Revision
2.4 English

The PL includes integrated blocks for PCIe® technology that can be configured as an Endpoint or Root Port, compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification Revision 3.1 for Gen3 and lower data rates and compatible with the PCI Express Base Specification Revision 4.0 (rev 0.5) for Gen4 data rates. The Root Port is used to build the basis for a compatible Root Complex, to allow custom chip-to-chip communication via the PCI Express protocol, and to attach ASSP Endpoint devices, such as Ethernet controllers or Fibre Channel HBAs, to the MPSoC. This block is highly configurable to system design requirements and can operate on 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16 lanes at up to 2.5 Gb/s, 5.0 Gb/s, 8.0 Gb/s, or 16 Gb/s data rates. For high-performance applications, advanced buffering techniques of the block offer a flexible maximum payload size of up to 1,024 bytes. The integrated block interfaces to integrated high-speed transceivers for serial connectivity and to block RAMs for data buffering. Combined, these elements implement the physical layer, data-link layer, and transaction layer of the PCI Express protocol.

AMD provides a light-weight, configurable, easy-to-use IP wrapper that ties the various building blocks (the integrated block for PCIe, the transceivers, block RAM, and clocking resources) into an Endpoint or Root Port solution. You have control over many configurable parameters in your system: link width and speed, maximum payload size, MPSoC logic interface speeds, reference clock frequency, and base address register decoding and filtering.

The PCIe controller is documented in the UltraScale+ Devices Integrated Block for PCI Express Product Guide (PG213) [Ref 28].