Implementation techniques for IEEE 802.3ba 40Gbps Ethernet Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS)

This paper presents an implementation technique for the 40Gbps Ethernet Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS). The functionality of the 40Gbps Ethernet PCS is specified in the IEEE 802.3ba standard's clause 82. The paper also presents a scheme of verification of this implementation using an FPGA setup.