Xilinx UG492 manual Tx Arbiter Bandwidth Control, IdleSlope, SendSlope

Tx Arbiter

•During AV traffic transmission, credit is removed at a rate defined by the sendSlope.

•The hiLimit and loLimit settings impose a fixed range on the possible values of credit. If the available credit hits one of these limits, it will not exceed, but saturate at the magnitude of that limit. These limits are fixed in the netlist to ensure that the interface is not used incorrectly.

The overall intention of the two settings idleSlope and sendSlope is to spread out the AV traffic transmission as evenly as possible over time, preventing periods of bursty AV transmission surrounded by idle AV transmission periods. No further background information is provided in this document with regard to the credit-based algorithm.

The remainder of this section describes the idleSlope, and sendSlope variables from the perspective of the Ethernet AVB Endpoint core.

Tx Arbiter Bandwidth Control

The Ethernet AVB Endpoint core contains four configuration registers, used for setting the cores local definitions of “idleSlope,” and “sendSlope.”

The configuration register settings are described in general, and then from the point of view of a single example which describes the calculations made to set the register default values. This example dedicates up to 75% of the overall bandwidth to be reserved for the AV traffic (leaving at least 25% for the Legacy Traffic).

The calculations described are independent of Ethernet operating speed (no re-calculation is required when changing between Ethernet speeds of 1 Gbps and 100 Mbps).

idleSlope

The general equation is:

idleSlopeValue=(AV percentage / 100) x 8192

In this example, dedicating up to 75% of the total bandwidth to the AV traffic, we obtain:

idleSlopeValue=(75 / 100) x 8192 = 6144

The calculated value for the idleSlopeValue should be written directly to the “Tx Arbiter Idle Slope Control Register.” This provides a per-byte increment value when relating this to Legacy Ethernet frame transmission.

sendSlope

The general equation is:

sendSlopeValue=((100 - AV percentage) / 100) x 8192

In this example, dedicating up to 75% of the total bandwidth to the AV traffic, we obtain:

sendSlopeValue=((100 - 75) / 100) x 8192 = 2048

The calculated value for the sendSlopeValue should be written directly to the “Tx Arbiter Send Slope Control Register.” This provides a per-byte decrement value when relating this to AV Ethernet frame transmission.

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UG492 July 23, 2010