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WKUAN
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5 years ago

Can I use GXB PIN of Stratix 10 as a pure data line?

Hello, Can the GXB pin be used as a pure high speed data line using 28GSPS NRZ without any protocol? for example, I wish to send 010010001010... out from one of the GXB differential pair, and the d...
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Ash_R_Altera
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5 years ago

Hi,

There is a difference in the Cyclone V and Stratix 10 transceiver architectures:

In Cyclone V we cannot bypass the serdes logic whereas in S10 we can. Compare the screen shots below.

S10:

Cyclone V:

So it is not possible to implement what you want to, in Cyclone V.

Regards

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WKUAN
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5 years ago

Thanks, it is good news, actually I want to do this with S10, so I will download high version quartus for evaluation.