Introduction

The PolarFire® FPGA 10G Ethernet solution is compliant to IEEE® 802.3ae standard, which supports data transfer rates up to 10.3125 Gbps. The advantages offered using PolarFire FPGAs for building 10G Ethernet solutions include: the use of low-power transceivers, low-power FPGA fabric, and an in-built SyncE-compliant jitter attenuation.

The 10G Ethernet solution is implemented using the CORE10GMAC soft IP Media Access Control (MAC) core, which can be configured either in 10GBASE-KR mode or 10GBASE-R mode.

This demo design includes a 10GBASE-R Ethernet 32-bit loopback design, which can be used as reference design for building a 10GBASE-R Ethernet SyncE loopback application. The SyncE is complaint with Jitter Attenuation Phase Locked Loop (JA PLL) enabled. This design runs on the PolaFire Evaluation board using Optical Network Tester (ONT) and can be used for simulation.