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Using FPGAs to Design Gigabit Serial Backplanes - Xilinx

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Error Detection in Hardware<br />

• Errors can be either in Rocket I/O block or link(s)<br />

• Five sources of link failure detected:<br />

– Link physical error threshold overflow<br />

– Channel misalignment<br />

– FIFO overflow<br />

• Receiver or transmitter<br />

– Transmitter sending an illegal K character<br />

• Upon detection of link failure, core resets itself and forces<br />

link partner <strong>to</strong> reset<br />

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