Overview
Xilinx offers an integrated 100 Gigabit per second (Gbps) Ethernet Media Access Controller (MAC), Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS), and IEEE 802.3bj Reed-Solomon Forward Error Correction (RS-FEC) Subsystem to enable new emerging optical solutions such as SR4, CWDM4, PSM4, or ER4f for high performance applications.
The Xilinx 100G Ethernet Subsystem provides high-performance interconnect technologies for communications equipment and flexibility in implementing emerging interface standards. The PCS portion of the IP can be configured in CAUI-10 (10 lanes x 10.3125G), CAUI-4 (4 lanes x 25.78125G) or a dynamically switchable CAUI-10 and CAUI-4 mode with optional built-in RS-FEC.
Learn more about Ethernet IP core
The fast track development and 24x7 operations have put tremendous pressure on the servers, networking systems and communication equipments. It has become necessary that these systems should operate reliably irrespective of the change in external operating environment like the temperature, humidity, and power fluctuations or, on chip conditions like on-chip temperature, internal voltage levels etc. Measuring the reliability of these physical systems is must for every operational unit.
In this article, we’ll review the feature set of Ethernet MAC blocks in Virtex-5 devices. We’ll also describe the differences between Virtex-5 and Virtex-4 FX Ethernet MACs, illustrate some potential applications, and describe how to use standard Xilinx tools to integrate an Ethernet MAC into your design.
Flexible FPGA fabric, embedded multi-gigabit transceivers, and off-the-shelf IP enable robust, high performance, and high-integration serial backplane interface solutions
