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Avalon Interface Specifications
XAUI PHY TimeQuest SDC Constraint
Refer to the "Timing Constraints for Bonded PCS and PMA Channels" section for the Synopsis Design
Constraints (SDC) for XAUI.
Related Information
Timing Constraints for Bonded PCS and PMA Channels on page 4-20
Acronyms
This table defines some commonly used Ethernet acronyms.
Table 2-152: Ethernet Acronyms
Acronym Definition
AN Auto-Negotiation in Ethernet as described in Clause 73 of IEEE 802.3ap-2007.
BER Bit Error Rate.
DME Differential Manchester Encoding.
FEC Forward error correction.
GMII Gigabit Media Independent Interface.
KR Short hand notation for Backplane Ethernet with 64b/66b encoding.
LD Local Device.
LT Link training in backplane Ethernet Clause 72 for 10GBASE-KR and
40GBASE-KR4.
LP Link partner, to which the LD is connected.
MAC Media Access Control.
MII Media independent interface.
OSI Open System Interconnection.
PCS Physical Coding Sublayer.
PHY Physical Layer in OSI 7-layer architecture, also in Altera device scope is: PCS
+ PMA.
PMA Physical Medium Attachment.
PMD Physical Medium Dependent.
SGMII Serial Gigabit Media Independent Interface.
WAN Wide Area Network.
XAUI 10 Gigabit Attachment Unit Interface.
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