Physical Layer Services

Interface initialization, maintenance control, and status tracking:

• Reset/Hot-Plug control/status
• Interconnect power management
• Width and Lane mapping negotiation
• Polarity reversal

Symbol and special Ordered Set generation:

• 8b/10b encoding/decoding
• Embedded clock tuning and alignment

Symbol transmission and alignment:

• Transmission circuits
• Reception circuits
• Elastic buffer at receiving side
• Multi-Lane de-skew (for widths > x1) at receiving side

System DFT support features