Gigabit Transceivers (GTs) - 2024.1 English

Versal Adaptive SoC Board System Design Methodology Guide (UG1506)

Document ID
UG1506
Release Date
2024-06-19
Version
2024.1 English

Gigabit transceivers (GTs) have specific pinout requirements, and you must consider the following:

  • Sharing of reference clocks
  • Sharing of PLLs within a quad
  • Placement of GT hard blocks, such as PCIe or MRMAC, and their proximity to transceivers
Note: For guidance on GT selection and pin planning for CPM5, see this link in the Versal Adaptive SoC CPM DMA and Bridge Mode for PCI Express Product Guide (PG347).

AMD recommends that you use the GT wizard to generate the core. Alternatively, you can use the AMD IP core for the protocol. Additional I/O pin planning steps are required when using AMD transceiver IP. After the IP is customized, assign the top-level transceiver I/O and REFCLK ports to physical package pins in either the elaborated or synthesized design using the Hard Block Planner or Pin Planner in the Vivado IDE. For pinout recommendations, see the Versal Adaptive SoC CPM DMA and Bridge Mode for PCI Express Product Guide (PG347).

Note: For clock resource balancing, the Vivado placer attempts to constrain loads clocked by GT output clocks next to the GTs sourcing the clocks.