Transceiver Protocols
Intel® FPGAs with integrated transceivers offer a range of data rates to suit all applications from 600 Mbps to 30 Gbps non-return-to-zero (NRZ) and up to 58 Gbps PAM4 Gbps.
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6G and Faster Protocols |
F/I/M Series |
GX/SX/TX/MX
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GX/GS |
GT |
GT |
GX/SX |
GT |
GZ/GT/GX/ST/SX |
GX |
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10G-SDI |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
CEI-11G/SR/LR |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
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✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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IEEE 802.3ae |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
IEEE 802.3ba |
✓ |
✓ |
|
✓ |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
IEEE 802.3ba 40G |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
IEEE 802.3ba 100G |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
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✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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PCI Express* |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
QDR InfiniBand |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
QPI |
✓ |
- |
- |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
SFP+ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
SONET |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
XFP |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
4G to 6G Protocols |
I/F/M Series |
GX/SX/TX/MX |
GX/GS |
GT |
GX |
GT |
GX/SX |
GT |
GT/ST |
GX/SX |
GX |
GZ |
GX |
GX/SX |
GT/ST |
GX |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
|
✓ |
✓ |
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DDR-XAUI |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
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✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
|
HyperTransport* 3.0 |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
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✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
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✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
✓ |
|
✓ |
- |
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OTU-2 (G.709) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
OTU-3 |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
OTU-4 |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
PCI Express |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
- |
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✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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SFI-4.2 |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
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SPI-4.2 |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
✓ |
SPI-5.1 |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
SPAUI |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
Slower than 4G Protocols |
F/I/M Series |
GX/SX/TX/MX |
GX/GS |
GT |
GX |
GT |
GX/SX |
GT |
GT/ST |
GX/SX |
GX |
GZ |
GX |
GX/SX |
V GT/ST |
IV GX |
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3G-SDI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
10-Gbps Ethernet XAUI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
ASI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
Basic Mode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
CPRI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
DDR-XAUI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - |
DisplayPort | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Fibre Channel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - |
GbE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
GPON | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - |
Interlaken | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - |
Interlaken Look-Aside | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - |
JESD204B | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - |
OBSAI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
PCI Express 1.0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
SAS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - |
SATA | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
SDI SD/HD | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Serial Lite II | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - |
Serial Lite III | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
RapidIO | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
SFP+ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - |
SFI-4.2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - |
SGMII | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
SONET OC-3/OC-12/OC-48 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
SPI-4.2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | ✓ |
SPI-5.1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - |
V-by-One | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |