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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

connecting 2 dev kits via HSMC-HSMC?

Hi, I'd like to use 2 dev kits' FPGAs to simply communicate (w/ as much bandwidth as possible), and I'm looking to at communicating over the HSMC connectors (male-male?). I only see ...
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17 years ago

There are male-male cables available (e.g. HQCD series) but not suitable for your application, cause they would also connect the power supplies. To my opinion, the only meaningful option is to use QTH board coennectors, interconnect boards and cables in-between.

You have different I/O standard and protocol options, depending on the intended throughput. Source synchronous serial highspeed transmission would be e.g. an effective way.