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Preface

About This Guide

The LogiCORE™ IP 1-Gigabit Ethernet MAC User Guide provides information about generating the core, customizing and simulating the core utilizing the provided example design, and running the design files through implementation using the Xilinx tools.

Guide Contents

This guide contains the following chapters:

•Preface, “About this Guide” introduces the organization and purpose of the guide and the conventions used in this document.

•Chapter 1, “Introduction” describes the core and related information, including recommended design experience, additional resources, technical support, and submitting feedback to Xilinx.

•Chapter 2, “Core Architecture” provides an overview of the core and discusses the Physical/Client signal interfaces.

•Chapter 3, “Generating the Core” describes the graphical user interface options used to generate the core.

•Chapter 4, “Designing with the Core” through Chapter 8, “Configuration and Status” describe design parameters, including how to initialize the core, generate and consume core packets, and how to operate the Management Interface.

•Chapter 9, “Constraining the Core” describes the constraints associated with the core.

•Chapter 10, “Clocking and Resetting” discusses special design considerations associated with clock management logic, including the Gigabit Media Independent Interface (GMII) and Reduced Gigabit Media Independent Interface (RGMII) options.

•Chapter 11, “Interfacing to Other Cores” describes how to interface the 1-Gigabit Ethernet MAC core to the Ethernet 1000BASE-X PCS/PMA or SGMII core and the Ethernet Statistics core.

•Chapter 12, “Implementing Your Design” provides instructions for how to set up synthesis, simulation, and implementation environments and how to generate a bitstream through the design flow.

•Appendix A, “Using the Client-Side FIFO” describes the FIFO provided in the example design that accompanies the GEMAC core.

•Appendix B, “Core Verification, Compliance, and Interoperability” describes how the core was verified and certified for compliance.

•Appendix C, “Calculating DCM Phase-Shifting”provides information about how to calculate the system timing requirements when using DCMs with the core.

•Appendix D, “Core Latency” describes the latency of the core.

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