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Altera_Forum
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17 years agousing stratix II GX transceiver on low data rate..
The specs of startix II GX transceiver development kit says that it can operate from 600Mbps~6Gbps. Does that mean there is no way it can operate on lower speeds like 100Mbps? (Im talking about...
Altera_Forum
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17 years agoHi,
I mean the IO pins that you use for the tranceivers can be used as any IO pins. So the notion of tranceivers becomes irrelevant. If your data is that low you don't need to think of the fast tranceiver circuitry. Treat your data as any serial stream connected to any suitable IO pins(not necessarily in lvds mode unless you want to). You will need to deserialise it within the fpga. Don't forget your clock is now needed kaz