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Chapter 4: Parameter Settings for the Arria V Hard IP for PCI Express

4–5

Port Functions

December 2013

Altera Corporation

Arria V Hard IP for PCI Express

User Guide

Error Reporting

Table 4–3

describes the Advanced Error Reporting (AER) and ECRC parameters.

These parameters are supported only in single function mode.

Completion
timeout range

(continued)

The following encodings are used to specify the range:

0001 Range A

0010 Range B

0011 Ranges A and B

0110 Ranges B and C

0111 Ranges A, B, and C

1110 Ranges B, C and D

1111 Ranges A, B, C, and D

All other values are reserved. Altera recommends that the
completion timeout mechanism expire in no less than 10 ms.

Implement
completion
timeout disable

On/Off

On

Sets the value of the Completion Timeout field of the

Device

Control 2

register (

0x0A8

) which is For PCI Express

version 2.0 and higher Endpoints, this option must be On. The
timeout range is selectable. When On, the core supports the
completion timeout disable mechanism via the PCI Express

Device Control Register 2

. The Application Layer logic

must implement the actual completion timeout mechanism
for the required ranges.

Table 4–2. Capabilities Registers for Function <n> (Part 2 of 2)

Parameter

Possible

Values

Default

Value

Description

Table 4–3. Error Reporting

0x800

0x834

Parameter

Value

Default

Value

Description

Advanced error
reporting (AER)

On/Off

Off

When On, enables the AER capability.

ECRC checking

On/Off

Off

When On, enables ECRC checking. Sets the read-only value of the
ECRC check capable bit in the

Advanced Error Capabilities

and Control Register

. This parameter requires you to enable the

AER capability.

ECRC generation

On/Off

Off

When On, enables ECRC generation capability. Sets the read-only
value of the ECRC generation capable bit in the

Advanced Error

Capabilities and Control Register

. This parameter requires

you to enable the AER capability.

ECRC forwarding

On/Off

Off

When On, enables ECRC forwarding to the Application Layer. On the
Avalon-ST RX path, the incoming TLP contains the ECRC dword

(1)

and the

TD

bit is set if an ECRC exists. On the transmit the TLP from

the Application Layer must contain the ECRC dword and have the

TD

bit set.

Note to

Table 4–3

:

(1) Throughout The Arria V Hard IP for PCI Express User Guide, the terms word, dword and qword have the same meaning that they have in the

PCI Express Base Specification Revision 2.1

. A word is 16 bits, a dword is 32 bits, and a qword is 64 bits.

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