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16 years ago

8b10b clock recovery?

Would it be possible to use an Altera FPGA (Arria II GX or Cyclone IV GX) to snoop on a 2.5 Gbps PCI Express link (via the PIPE interface), recover the clock and send out the recovered clock to one o...
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16 years ago

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the PCIe Refclk can be used as a trigger for jitter measurements, because all Tx signals are phase locked to it.

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Thanks. I came to the same conclusion and this is what i'll do.