SBASAO8 June 2025 DAC39RF20
ADVANCE INFORMATION
For 8b/10b modes, the lane arrival times are always measured using a 5-bit, modulo-32 counter, regardless of the actual multiframe length.
When the multiframe length is also 32 octa-bytes, the entire 5-bit counter is aligned by SYSREF. When the multiframe length is 16, or 8 octa-bytes, only the lower 4 or 3 bits (respectively) of the counter are aligned by SYSREF, and the upper bits are left to free-run. This arrangement allows the user to unambiguously determine which lanes are the earliest and latest lanes, even when lane skew is as high as 15 octa-bytes (there is a large, unambiguous empty space on the 32 octa-byte circle that separates the latest lane from the earliest lane).
When the multiframe length is less than 32 octa-bytes, the LANE_ARR values can significantly change from one link startup to the next, however this does not interfere with the RBD calculation as long as the user does not mix LANE_ARR data from multiple link startups.