- What is the significance of Receiver and transmitter equalization presets? (P335-338)
- List down various states in Link power management state flow diagram? Write the significance of each state.
- List down various Device power management states and their significance related to power saving in each of the states.
- What is Power management Event mechanisms?
- What is ASPM(active state power management)?
- List down various DLLPs used for Power management? Write their significance in various power management state transitions?
- List down various types of interrupt models supported by PCIe?
- “PCIe virtualizes PCI physical interrupt signals by using an in-band signalling mechanism”, elaborate this statement?
- What is the difference between INT-X and MSI interrupt modelling?
- How does MSI based interrupt reporting work? Why it is preferred over INT-X model?
- List down various types errors generated in different layers of PCIe? Classify them in to various categories as correctable and uncorrectable?
- What is difference between correctable and uncorrectable errors?
- What is difference between Fatal errors and Non-Fatal errors?
- What is error pollution in PCIe? How is it addressed?
- List down categories of below errors in correctable/uncorrectable and fatal categories?
- Malformed TLP
- Unexpected Completion
- TLP Prefix Blocked
- Unsupported Request
- Completion Timeout
- Poisoned TLP Received
- Bad DLLP
- Bad TLP
- What is function level reset in PCIe?
- What is significance of TLP hints? Significance of Steering Tags in TLP Hint?
- What is latency tolerance reporting mechanism?
- List down various fields in Link control register? Write the significance of these fields in link management?
- How does device indicate its VC supported details? How is it significant in PCIe TLP generation?