10 Gb/s Ethernet Media Access Controller(XMAC)
XMAC core from Flowgic Inc. is a full-duplex, 10-Gigabit Ethernet Media Access Controller(MAC) IP designed to meet IEEE 802.3ae-2000 specification. XMAC is an efficient, flexible and robust implementation of the MAC and RS layers.
View Larger PictureKey Features
- In-band START(/S/) and TERMINATE(/T/) control character insertion
- Preamble/Start-of-Frame Delimiter Insertion
- Option to replace MACD, MACS, ETHERTYPE and VLAN/PRI fields in the transmitted frame with values from registers
- Frame Check Sequence(FCS) computation/insertion and extraction/checking
- Frame Transmit Error Propagation
- Frame delineation using control characters, preamble/SFD in the ingress direction
- Handling different kinds of errors and recovery
- Inter Frame Gap(IFG) that meets Deficit Idle Count rules
- Insertion of additional IDLEs to meet WAN-PHY rate limit
- Reconciliation sub-layer(RS) implementation including Local Fault/Remote Fault handling
- Simple System-side interface
- SDR line-side interface or option to use DDR XGMII interface
- MDIO STA for management of PHYs
- Generic CPU interface for access to Control and Status registers
- Flow-control handling in both transmit and receive directions
- Comprehensive statistics vectors and optional statistics counter block
Advantages
- Low Gate Count
- Flexible Design
- Designed for Reuse & Testability
- Proven Design Methodology
- Customization Options
Deliverables
- Functional Specification
- RTL Database
- Functional Verification Environment
- Synthesis Scripts
- Timing Report
- User Guide
Contact
For licensing/more information, contact sales or call +1 (510)656-4524.
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