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12 years ago

How to set up a transceiver in Arria V GX development kit?

Hello, I have the Arria V GX 5AGXFB3H4F40C5. I program it with Quartus II 13.1 in windows 8.1 the questions are at the end of this message. I'm trying to set up one transceiver as tra...
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12 years ago

Are you using a SMA loopback cable on the board? If so where do you connect it? Or are you using a HSMC loopback connector?

It could also be smart to simulate your RTL code first so you know that it's functionally correct. Writing a testbench would be pretty simple since you just have to provide the clocks, refclock, reset, and the loopback. However, it can be some amount of work to set up all the IP files which goes into your simulator.