Document Outline

• SerialLite II Protocol
  • Table of Contents
  • About This Manual
    • Revision History
    • How to Contact Altera
    • Typographic Conventions
    • Glossary
  • SerialLite II Specification
    • Introduction
      • Protocol Features
      • Typical Applications
    • Architectural Overview
      • Physical Layer
        • Transmit Direction
        • Receive Direction
      • Data Link Layer
        • Transmit Direction
        • Receive Direction
    • Physical Layer Description
      • Signal Definitions
      • Interface Diagrams
      • Electrical Specifications
        • Advisory Note for Electrical Specifications
        • Equalization and Pre-emphasis
        • Driver Characteristics
        • Receiver Characteristics
        • Interconnect Characteristics
        • Electrical Measurement Requirements
      • Symbol Encoding
        • Notation Convention
        • Transmission Order
        • Running Disparity Rules
        • Valid and Invalid code-groups
        • Control Symbols
        • Comma /COM/
        • Align /ALN/
        • Idle /IDL/
        • Start of Data Packet /SDP/
        • Start of Priority Packet /SPP/
        • Continuation of Data Packet /CDP/
        • Continuation of Priority Packet /CPP/
        • Suspend User Packet /SUP/
        • End of Good Packet /EGP/
        • End of Bad Packet /EBP/
        • Start of Link Management Packet/SLP/
      • Control Sequences
        • Start of Data Packet Sequence {SDP}
        • Start of Priority Packet Sequence {SPP}
        • End of Good Packet Sequence {EGP}
        • End of Bad Packet Sequence {EBP}
        • Suspend User Packet Sequence {SUP}
        • Continuation of Data Packet Sequence {CDP}
        • Continuation of Priority Packet Sequence {CPP}
      • Ordered Sequences
        • Training Sequence One Ordered Set Sequence {|TS1|}
        • Training Sequence Two Ordered Set Sequence {|TS2|}
        • Link Deskew Ordered Set Sequence {|TDS|}
        • Clock Compensation Ordered Set Sequence ({|CC|})
      • Link Initialization and Training
        • Training Sequence
        • Acknowledging Link Training State Machine
          • Reset State
          • Character Alignment State
          • Acknowledge Character Alignment State
          • Lane Alignment State
          • Acknowledge Lane Alignment State
          • Link-Up State
        • Self Synchronizing Link Training State Machine
          • Reset State
          • Character Alignment State
          • Link-Up State
        • Clock Tolerance Compensation
          • Clock Tolerance Compensation Rules
        • Scrambling (Optional)
          • Rules for Scrambling
    • Data Link Layer Description
      • Packet Description
        • User Packets
          • User Packet Types
          • User Packet Length
          • User Packet Data Flow
          • User Packet Encapsulation
        • Link Management Packets
          • Link Management Packet Identification
          • Link Management Packet Size
          • Link Management Packet Payload Format
          • Link Management Packet Type (LMP[23:20])
          • Link Management Packet Parameter (LMP[19:8])
          • Link Management Packet Protection (LMP[7:0])
          • Effect of Link Management Packet Corruption
      • Idle Generation
      • Data Transmission Priority
        • Nesting Packets
          • Packet Nesting Rules
        • Interleaved Data Packets
          • Packet Interleaving Rules
      • Multi-Lane Alignment
        • Multi-Lane Alignment Rules for Packets
        • Data Transmission Rules
        • Lane Alignment Examples
          • Single Lane Transmission for Packet Applications
          • Multiple Lane Transmission for Packet Applications
          • Continuation of Packet Example
          • Link Management Packet Alignment
          • Clock Tolerance Compensation Sequence Alignment
          • Illegal Multi-Lane Alignment
      • Transfer Size
        • Transfer Size Implementation Rules
          • Transfer Size Examples
      • Channel Multiplexing
        • Data Packets
        • Priority Packets
        • Payload Error Protection (Optional)
          • CRC-16
          • CRC-32
      • Flow Control (Optional)
        • Flow control time
        • Flow Control Implementation Rules
        • Effect of Link Management Packet Corruption
      • Retry-on-Error (Optional)
        • Retry-on-Error Link Management Packet Format
        • Segment Identification (SID)
        • Segment Buffers
        • Segment Acknowledgement Timer
        • Retry-on-Error Implementation Rules
        • Effect of Link Management Packet Corruption
    • Error Events & Handling
      • Catastrophic Error Events
        • Action
      • Link Error Events
        • Action
      • Data Error Events
        • Action
        • Data Error Threshold
          • Leaky Bucket Algorithm
          • Data Error Threshold Rules
      • Packets Marked Bad
        • Status Indication
    • 8b/10b Code Groups
    • References