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15 years ago

RapidIO IP in Cyclone III EP3C120F780 FPGA ???

Can any one you tell me does the RapidIO from Altera is supported by the Cyclone III FPGA Development Kit containing Cyclone III EP3C120F780 FPGA This question arise because in the RapidIO Me...
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15 years ago

If you need to communicate with another SRIO compliant component, you will need a board with a serdes. If you just want to have a communication between two FPGAs, it may be possible to connect the two rapidIO IPs through a custom logic that would act like two serdes. I haven't looked at the interface with the serdes so I don't know how this should be done though.