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Opencore plus time-out behavior, Opencore plus time-out behavior –13 – Altera RapidIO MegaCore Function User Manual

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Chapter 1: About This MegaCore Function

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Installation and Licensing

August 2014

Altera Corporation

RapidIO MegaCore Function

User Guide

OpenCore Plus Time-Out Behavior

OpenCore Plus hardware evaluation supports the following two operation modes:

Untethered—the design runs for a limited time.

Tethered—requires a connection between your board and the host computer. If
tethered mode is supported by all megafunctions in a design, the device can
operate for a longer time or indefinitely.

All megafunctions in a device time out simultaneously when the most restrictive
evaluation time is reached. If there is more than one megafunction in a design, a
specific megafunction's time-out behavior may be masked by the time-out behavior of
the other megafunctions.

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For Altera IP cores, the untethered time-out is 1 hour; the tethered time-out value is
indefinite.

Your design stops working after the hardware evaluation time expires.

The RapidIO IP core then suppresses all packet transfers through the Physical layer.
As a result, the RapidIO IP core cannot transmit new packets (it only transmits the
idle sequence and status control symbols), and cannot read packets from the Physical
layer. If the remote link partner continues to transmit packets, the RapidIO IP core
refuses new packets by sending packet_retry control symbols after its receiver
buffer fills up beyond the corresponding threshold.

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AN 320: OpenCore Plus Evaluation of Megafunctions