13th Generation Intel® Core™, Intel® Core™ 14th Generation, Intel® Core™ Processor (Series 1) and (Series 2), Intel® Xeon™ E 2400 Processor and Intel® Xeon™ 6300 Processor

Datasheet, Volume 1 of 2
Supporting 13th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor for S, H, P, HX, and U Processor Line Platforms, formerly known as Raptor Lake.
Supporting Intel® Core™ 14th Generation Processor for S, HX formerly known As Raptor Lake Refresh.
Supporting Intel® Core™ Processor (Series 1) for U Processor Line Platform, formerly known As Raptor Lake refresh
Supporting Intel® Core™ Processor (Series 2) for H Processor Line Platform, formerly known As Raptor Lake Refresh.
Supporting Intel® Xeon® E 2400 Processor and Intel® Xeon® 6300 Processor, formerly known As Raptor Lake–E Refresh

ID Date Version Classification
743844 05/30/2025 Public
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PCI Express* Equalization Methodology

Link equalization requires equalization for both TX and RX sides for the processor and for the Endpoint device.

Adjusting transmitter and receiver of the lanes is done to improve signal reception quality and for improving link robustness and electrical margin.

The link timing margins and voltage margins are strongly dependent on equalization of the link.

The processor supports the following:

  • Full TX Equalization: Three Taps Linear Equalization (Pre, Current and Post cursors), with FS/LF (Full Swing /Low Frequency) values.
  • Full RX Equalization and acquisition for AGC (Adaptive Gain Control), CDR (Clock and Data Recovery), adaptive DFE (decision feedback equalizer) and adaptive CTLE peaking (continuous time linear equalizer).
  • Full adaptive phase 3 EQ compliant with PCI Express* Gen 3 and Gen 4 specification.