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Chapter 5: Parameter Settings for the Avalon-MM Arria V Hard IP for PCI Express

5–5

PCI Express/PCI Capabilities

December 2013

Altera Corporation

Arria V Hard IP for PCI Express

User Guide

Error Reporting

Table 5–5

describes the Advanced Error Reporting (AER) and ECRC parameters.

Link

Table 5–6

describes the Link Capabilities parameters.

Completion
timeout range

(continued)

All other values are reserved. Altera recommends that the
completion timeout mechanism expire in no less than 10 ms.

Implement
completion
timeout
disable

0x0A8

On/Off

On

For PCI Express version 2.0 and higher Endpoints, this option
must be On. The timeout range is selectable. When On, the
core supports the completion timeout disable mechanism via
the PCI Express

Device Control Register 2

. The

Application Layer logic must implement the actual completion
timeout mechanism for the required ranges.

Table 5–4. Capabilities Registers for Function (Part 2 of 2)

Parameter

Possible

Values

Default

Value

Description

Table 5–5. Error Reporting

0x800

0x834

Parameter

Value

Default

Value

Description

Advanced error
reporting (AER)

On/Off

Off

When On, enables the AER capability.

ECRC checking

On/Off

Off

When On, enables ECRC checking. Sets the read-only value of the
ECRC check capable bit in the

Advanced Error Capabilities

and Control Register

. This parameter requires you to enable the

AER capability.

ECRC generation

On/Off

Off

When On, enables ECRC generation capability. Sets the read-only
value of the ECRC generation capable bit in the

Advanced Error

Capabilities and Control Register

. This parameter requires

you to enable the AER capability.

Note to

Table 5–5

:

(1) Throughout The Arria V Hard IP for PCI Express User Guide, the terms word, dword and qword have the same meaning that they have in the

PCI Express Base Specification Revision 2.1 or 3.0

. A word is 16 bits, a dword is 32 bits, and a qword is 64 bits.

Table 5–6. Link Capabilities

0x090

Parameter

Value

Description

Link port number

0x01

(Default

value)

Sets the read-only value of the port number field in the

Link Capabilities

register. This is an 8-bit field which you can specify.

Slot clock
configuration

On/Off

When On, indicates that the Endpoint or Root Port uses the same physical reference
clock that the system provides on the connector. When Off, the IP core uses an
independent clock regardless of the presence of a reference clock on the connector.