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SoftIP IP Group of Alphawave IP

2.5G/1000M/100M/10M Quad-Mode Ethernet MAC

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2.5G/1000M/100M/10M Quad-Mode MAC IP Core

The fully integrated 2.5G/1000M/100M/10M Quad-mode Media Access Controller (MAC) core for Ethernet applications is compliant with IEEE 802.3 standard and RGMII specifications. The PHY interface supports both RGMII and GMII interfaces. This Quad-Mode Core is configurable through software register.

The west-bound interface from the MAC provides a configurable 32-bit system interface.

The east-bound interface performs the mapping of transmit and receive data streams (at the PHY layer) to the on-chip SERDES or external PHY chip.

Figure 1  Quad-Mode MAC Block Diagram

Benefits

  • Proven IP reduces development time and risk
  • Support 2.5Gbps, 1000Mbps, 100Mbps and 10Mbps PHY interfaces
  • Support GMII and RGMII interface natively
  • Support Full duplex or half-duplex modes
  • Support Carrier Extended and Link fault
  • Off-the-shelf, proven technology implementation in FPGAs and ASIC SOC
  • Tested and interoperability-proven

Features

  • Integrated Quad-mode operation MAC with RGMII and GMII interface for area efficiency
  • Fully compatible with IEEE802.3 2015 standard, and RGMII specification 1.3 and 2.0
  • Super low latency with minimized fixed and variable delay for network efficiency.
  • Supports 1588v2 1-step and 2-step time stamps and full error handling
  • Supports 802.1Qbb priority flow control (PFC)