I/O Standard and Placement - 16.2 English

1G/2.5G Ethernet PCS/PMA or SGMII LogiCORE IP Product Guide (PG047)

Document ID
PG047
Release Date
2023-11-01
Version
16.2 English

There are no specific I/O standard/placement requirements on most interfaces. Depending upon the device family, part and package chosen there are two types of I/O available for use. HP I/O is intended for support of high-speed interfaces and as such is limited to 1.8 V support. HP I/O support both Input and Output Delays components. HR I/O is intended for interfaces with higher voltage requirements and has a more limited supported frequency range. HR I/O only supports Input Delay components.

Both MII and GMII are 3.3 V standards. However the majority of PHYs are multi-standard and operate at either 2.5 V or 3.3 V and this is also true of the PHYs selected for AMD development boards. This means that for most applications the physical interfaces are restricted to either using HR I/O, where available, or HP I/O with an external voltage converter to translate between 1.8 V and the minimum level required by the PHY of 2.5 V.

Important: For any board design it is very important to identify which type of I/O is available/being used.

In most of the applications the GMII interface of the core is interfaced to AMD TEMAC core in the FPGA, which means that no IP standard/placement is required for that interface.