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2.2 SRIO Pins
2.3 Functional Operation
SRIO Functional Description
The SRIO device pins are high-speed differential signals based on Current-Mode Logic (CML) switching
levels. The transmit and receive buffers are self-contained within the clock recovery blocks. The reference
clock input is not incorporated into the SERDES macro. It uses a common LVDS input buffer that aligns
interfaces with crystal oscillator manufacturers. None of the peripheral pins may be used as GPIO pins.
Table 3 provides more detail.
Table 3. Pin Description
Pin Name Pin Signal Description
Count Direction
RIOTX3/ RIOTX3 2 Output Transmit Data Differential point-to-point unidirectional bus. Transmits
packet data to a receiving device’s RX pins. Most significant bit of a 4X
device.
RIOTX2/ RIOTX2 2 Output Transmit Data Differential point-to-point unidirectional bus. Transmits
packet data to a receiving device’s RX pins.
RIOTX1/ RIOTX1 2 Output Transmit Data Differential point-to-point unidirectional bus. Transmits
packet data to a receiving device’s RX pins.
RIOTX0/ RIOTX0 2 Output Transmit Data Differential point-to-point unidirectional bus. Transmits
packet data to a receiving device’s RX pins. Bit used for 1X mode.
RIORX3/ RIORX3 2 Input Receive Data Differential point-to-point unidirectional bus. Receives
packet data for a transmitting device’s TX pins. Most significant bits in
4X mode.
RIORX2/ RIORX2 2 Input Receive Data Differential point-to-point unidirectional bus. Receives
packet data for a transmitting device’s TX pins.
RIORX1/ RIORX1 2 Input Receive Data Differential point-to-point unidirectional bus. Receives
packet data for a transmitting device’s TX pins.
RIORX0/ RIORX0 2 Input Receive Data Differential point-to-point unidirectional bus. Receives
packet data for a transmitting device’s TX pins. Bit used for 1X mode
RIOCLK/ RIOCLK 2 Input Reference Clock Input Buffer for peripheral clock recovery circuitry.
2.3.1 Block Diagram
Figure 8 shows a conceptual block diagram of the SRIO peripheral. The load/store unit (LSU) controls the
transmission of Direct I/O packets, and the memory access unit (MAU) controls the reception of Direct I/O
packets. The LSU also controls the transmission of maintenance packets. Message packets are
transmitted by the TXU and received by the RXU. These four units use the internal DMA to communicate
with internal memory, and they use buffers and receive/transmit ports to communicate with external
devices. Serializer/deserializer (SERDES) macros support the ports by performing the parallel-to-serial
coding for transmission and serial-to-parallel decoding for reception.
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