Ti240 Transceiver Specifications

The following tables describe the transceiver specifications.

Table 1. Transceiver Data Rate
Standard Speed Grade Data Rate per Lane Unit
Min. Typ. Max.
PCIe Gen1 All 2.5 Gbps
PCIe Gen2 All 5 Gbps
PCIe Gen3 All 8 Gbps
PCIe Gen4 C4, I4, C3, I3 16 Gbps
10GBase-KR All 10.3125 Gbps
SGMII All 1.25 Gbps
PMA Direct C4, I4, C3, I3, C4L, I4L 1.188 12.5 Gbps
C3L, I3L 1.188 10.31251 Gbps
Note: For PMA Direct Rx insertion loss guidelines, refer to the topic "PMA Direct" in AN 063: High-Speed Transceiver Design Guidelines.
Table 2. Transceiver Common PLL Specification
Description Condition Min. Typ. Max. Unit
Input clock frequency PCIe - SRIS disabled 99.97 100 100.03 MHz
10GBase-KR 156.22 156.25 156.28 MHz
SGMII 156.22 156.25 156.28 MHz
100 MHz
62.5 MHz
PMA Direct 19.19 156.28 MHz
VCO frequency 4.375 5.16 GHz
Table 3. Transceiver Lane PLL Specification
Description Condition Min. Typ. Max. Unit
Input clock frequency 500 1000 MHz
VCO frequency 8 16 GHz
Table 4. Transceiver External Refclk Specification
Symbol, Description Condition Min. Typ. Max. Unit
VI, Input voltage valid range 0 0.85 V
VID, Differential peak-to-peak input voltage 0.4 0.8 1.6 V
SSC frequency deviation 5000 ppm
Ramp rate 0.6 V/ns
Duty cycle 45 55 %
Spread-spectrum modulating clock frequency 30 33 kHz
Phase Noise Offset = 100 Hz -80 dBc/Hz
Offset = 1 kHz -100 dBc/Hz
Offset = 10 kHz -120 dBc/Hz
Offset = 100 kHz -130 dBc/Hz
Offset = 1 MHz -140 dBc/Hz
RTERM, Internal termination resistor 40 50 62.5
Note: The I/O standard for the transceiver external reference clock complies with the PCIe HCSL reference clock standard.
Table 5. Transmitter Specification
Description Condition Min. Typ. Max. Unit
VOD, Differential output voltage 0.8 1.2 V
Lane-to-lane skew Within the same quad 1741 ps
RJ, Random jitter 0.15 UI
DJ, Deterministic jitter 0.15 UI
DCDJ, Duty Cycle Distortion jitter 0.035 UI
TJ, Total jitter 0.28 UI
Table 6. Receiver Specification
Description Condition Min. Typ. Max. Unit
VID, Differential peak-to-peak input voltage (externally AC-coupled) 1.6 V
ZDIFF-DC, DC differential input impedance 80 100 120
RJ, Random jitter 0.224 UI
DJ, Deterministic jitter 0.376 UI
SJ, Sinosoidal jitter 0.1 UI
TJ, Total jitter 0.7 UI
Table 7. APB Clock
Description Condition Min. Typ. Max. Unit
APB clock frequency 200 MHz
1 Characterization pending.