7 Series FPGAs GTP Transceivers User Guide www.xilinx.com 9UG482 (v1.9) December 19, 2016PrefaceAbout This GuideXilinx® 7 series FPGAs include four FPGA families that are all designed for lowest power to enablea common design to scale across families for optimal power, performance, and cost. The Spartan®-7family is the lowest density with the lowest cost entry point into the 7 series portfolio. The Artix®-7family is optimized for highest performance-per-watt and bandwidth-per-watt for cost-sensitive,high-volume applications. The Kintex®-7 family is an innovative class of FPGAs optimized for thebest price-performance. The Virtex®-7 family is optimized for highest system performance andcapacity. This guide serves as a technical reference describing the 7 series FPGAs GTP transceivers.The 7 series FPGAs GTP transceivers user guide, part of an overall set of documentation on the7 series FPGAs, is available on the Xilinx website at xilinx.com/documentation.In this document:• 7 series FPGAs GTP transceiver channel is abbreviated as GTP transceiver.• GTPE2_CHANNEL is the name of the instantiation primitive that instantiates one GTPtransceiver channel.• GTPE2_COMMON is the name of the primitive that instantiates two ring oscillator PLLs(PLL0 and PLL1).• A Quad or Q is a cluster or set of four GTP transceiver channels, one GTPE2_COMMONprimitive, two differential reference clock pin pairs, and analog supply pins.Guide ContentsThis manual contains:• Chapter 1, Transceiver and Tool Overview• Chapter 2, Shared Features• Chapter 3, Transmitter• Chapter 4, Receiver• Chapter 5, Board Design Guidelines• Appendix A, Placement Information by Package• Appendix B, Placement Information by Device• Appendix C, 8B/10B Valid Characters• Appendix D, DRP Address Map of the GTP TransceiverSend Feedback