Product Brief
SPI-4 Phase 1
odel
are
Core w/ FIFOs V1.0
For Altera PLDs
June 2001
Standards to Silicon
Features
Benefits
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OIF-compliant SPI-4 Phase
1
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Faster FPGA and ASIC development for
improved time-to-market with FlexBUS-
4 functions
(compatible with AMCC FlexBUS-4)
with FIFOs
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ATM, Packet Over SONET (POS),
and Direct Data Mapping1 modes
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Lower development cost through design
reuse
Single- and multi-link operation,
scalable from 1 to 16 links.
Available source code licensing for easy
design integration and migration to gate
arrays or ASICs
Programmable per-port bandwidth
allocation
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Ample design flexibility using control
signals and generics/parameters
Programmable FIFO size with
programmable almost empty/almost
full thresholds.
Verified functionality and standards
compliance
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Programmable burst size
Description
Automatic link selection in the
Source block based on Source
FIFO threshold and flow control
information.
The Optical Interworking Forum’s (OIF) SPI-
4 Phase 1 interface allows the
interconnection of Physical Layer devices to
Link Layer devices in 10Gb/s ATM, POS,
and Ethernet applications. Modelware’s
SPI-4 Phase 1 core performs the interface
functions on both sides of the interface as
shown in Figure 1and Figure 2.
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64-bit data bus width.
Parity generation/checking over
data and control words
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Altera’s Atlantic Interface on user’s
side.
Spi4
Line Tx
Data
Full synchronous design, exceeds:
Clk = 200 MHz
Tx
Spi4Tx
FIFO(s)
PHY
Link
Layer
SPI-4
I/F
Layer
PluriBus
Interface
Fully automatic test bench including
driver/monitor.
Processor
Line Rx
Data
Rx
Spi4Rx
FIFO(s)
Easy to use in Mux/Demux and
bridge functions
Control
Status
Standards Compliance
Figure 1: SPI-4 Phase 1 PHY Layer Application
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OIF SPI-4 Phase 1
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AMCC FlexBUS-4
1 Direct Data Mapping is a raw data mode
supported in AMCC’s Ganges device.