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Picozed Ethernet pair swapping possible?

peter_clements
peter_clements 10 months ago

Dear All,

I am making a carrier board for the Picozed, and I was wondering if it is possible to swap pairs for the ethernet lines (not polarity swapping, but pairs e.g. 3<=>4)

Thank you all,

Peter

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    0 narrucmot 10 months ago

    Hi Peter,

     

    By default for the Vivado hw platforms that Avnet provides for the PicoZed the signals for the Ethernet interface are connected to the Processing System (PS) inside the Zynq device and their locations are thus fixed on the MIO pins on the device.  It isn't possible to swap them.

     

    However, since you are creating a custom carrier, you may be able to modify or create your own PicoZed design in Vivado to change the Ethernet interface from MIO to EMIO.  Putting the interface on EMIO will route the Ethernet MAC signals to PL I/Os, thus giving you greater control over how they are arranged on the device I/Os and across the carrier PCB routed to the Ethernet PHY.  Keep in mind, though, that the Ethernet interface is RGMII when on MIO and GMII when on EMIO.  This means the Ethernet interface uses a lot more pins when on EMIO.  The Xilinx Zynq TRM (UG585, Ch. 16) has more information.

    https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/ug585-Zynq-7000-TRM.pdf

     

    --Tom

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    0 peter_clements 10 months ago in reply to narrucmot

    Hi Tom,

     

    Thanks for your answer. However, I am not going to connect a different MAC but using the same as already on the Picozed - I am wondering if everything will still work if I swap a pair between the my ETH connector with integrated magnetics and the connector of the PicoZed.

    Best,

    Peter

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    0 peter_clements 10 months ago in reply to narrucmot

    By the way, I just found this information:

    https://www.marvell.com/content/dam/marvell/en/public-collateral/transceivers/marvell-phys-transceivers-alaska-88e151x-datasheet.pdf

    Table 116 on page 111 where it seems possible - could you please check with the HW team?

    Thank you

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    0 narrucmot 10 months ago in reply to peter_clements

    Since you don't plan to change the Zynq PS Ethernet MAC to use EMIO instead of the MIO, then I am afraid what you want to do - swap a pair of signals between the ETH connector and PicoZed connector - won't be possible. 

     

    --Tom

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    0 narrucmot 10 months ago in reply to peter_clements

    Upon further review I was just chatting with a colleague who suggested this swapping might be possible within the Ethernet PHY.  If this is the case this could be done via register writes over the MDIO interface.  This would require custom software running on the PicoZed at boot to init the register.  The Marvell datasheet will have more information:

    https://www.marvell.com/content/dam/marvell/en/public-collateral/transceivers/marvell-phys-transceivers-alaska-88e151x-datasheet.pdf

     

     

    --Tom

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    0 narrucmot 10 months ago in reply to peter_clements

    The Hardware team agrees that it might be possible, but we've never done it, and we aren't the authority on Marvell PHY operation. Proceed at your own risk. You may want to consult with your local Marvell FAE to get their input on the matter.

     

    --Tom

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