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