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16 years ago

6 Gbps PIPE on Arria II GX?

I'm considering buying the Arria II GX Development Board to develop a solution that will interact directly with the PIPE interface. The Altera web site however says that PCI Express Gen 2 is not supp...
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16 years ago

To clarify: Since the receiver PMA and PCS blocks apparently works for SATA III (6 gbps) in the I3 version of Arria II GX, why can't I use the PMA/PCS/PIPE to receive PCI Express Gen 2 (5 Gbps) data?

Note that i'm only interested in receiving. The transmitter is not used in my application.

Also note that i only use the PIPE interface so the hard PCIe IP block is not used.

I would need to receive two bonded x8 PIPE links (16 transceivers in total).