Article ID: 000080436 Content Type: Troubleshooting Last Reviewed: 02/15/2023

Why does AN830: Intel® FPGA Triple-Speed Ethernet and On-Board PHY Chip Reference Design fails to perform auto-negotiation at 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps ?

Environment

  • Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition
  • Triple-Speed Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP
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    Description

    Due to a problem in AN830: Intel® FPGA Triple-Speed Ethernet and On-Board PHY Chip Reference Design that was generated using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software version 17.1, Intel® FPGA Triple-Speed Ethernet IP core fails to perform auto-negotiation with link partner at 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps.

    This is because Intel® Stratix® 10 GX Signal Integrity Development Kit Board on-board Marvell* 88E1111 PHY chip is not configured to advertise 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps speed correctly during the auto-negotiation with the link partner. 

      

    Resolution

    To avoid this error, tse_marvel_phy.tcl script that's located in <project_directory>/sc_tcl of the reference design need to be amended with the following design changes.

     

    Include the following lines within the default { } condition at line 131 of the tse_marvel_phy.tcl script:

    if { $PHY_COPPER_DUPLEX == 1} {

        set quad_phy_register_value_temp [expr {$quad_phy_register_value_temp | 0x0140}];   

        puts "Advertise PHY 100BASE-TX & 10BASE-TX Full Duplex";

    } else {

        set quad_phy_register_value_temp [expr {$quad_phy_register_value_temp | 0x00A0}];

        puts "Advertise PHY 100BASE-TX & 10BASE-TX Half Duplex";

    }

     

    This problem is scheduled to be fixed in a future release of AN 830: Intel® FPGA Triple-Speed Ethernet and On-Board PHY Chip Reference Design. 

    Related Products

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    Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs