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Altera: What does the PCI-Express LTSSM feature do?

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LTSSM (Link Training and Status State Machine) is a state machine that manages link status such as link initialization, training, and error recovery.

The following states exist:

state meaning
Detect Perform far-end receiver detection
Polling Sends and receives training sequences, performs bit synchronization, symbol synchronization, and lane polarity detection, and determines the data rate.
Configuration By sending and receiving training sequences, the link lane configuration is established, and inter-lane deskew and scrambling are set.
Recovery Restoring the link
L0 normal operating state
L0s States that reduce power consumption
L1 State that saves more power than L0s, but must go through Recovery state to return to L0 state
L2 Power consumption can be reduced even more than the L1 state, the transmitter and receiver functions are stopped, and the main power supply and clock are not guaranteed.
Disable Link disabled
Loopback state for debugging
Hot Reset Transition when instructed by upper layer or when Hot Reset is instructed by link control

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