GEM includes the following functional blocks:
- Integrated 1000BASE-X Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS) for encoding and decoding the data and for Auto Negotiation (AN)
- Time Stamping Unit (TSU) for timer operations
- TSN block to support Timing Sensitive Networking (TSN) features
- High-speed AXI DMA block to transfer data to and from the processor
- Filter block filters out the received frames
Figure 1. Functional Block Diagram
