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kate's lab notebook · Sep 1, 2020

USB3 LFPS Using ECP5 SerDes I/O

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Lately, I’ve been developing a USB3 stack, and a USB3 frontend using the ECP5 SerDes. The ECP5 SerDes seems almost 
perfect for USB3, which shares many of its implementation details with PCIe. However, there are a couple of hitches. 
 The more difficult to deal with is support for USB3’s Low Frequency Periodic Signaling (LFPS) . LFPS carries small bursts
of information via…

Lately, I’ve been developing a USB3 stack, and a USB3 frontend using the ECP5 SerDes. The ECP5 SerDes seems almost perfect for USB3, which shares many of its implementation details with PCIe. However, there are a couple of hitches.

The more difficult to deal with is support for USB3’s Low Frequency Periodic Signaling (LFPS). LFPS carries small bursts of information via a slow, out-of-band signal, meant to be used before the high-speed USB3 link is established:

Read on /post/serdes-lfps/

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