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17 years ago

ALT2GXB to Marvell 88E1112 via SGMII?

hey everyone, I am trying to find out if there is anything special that I need to use between the GigE outputs from the ALT2GXB to connect to the Marvell 88E1112 or a similar kind of transceive...
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17 years ago

The ALT2GXB Megafunction is not a MAC Core and so does not implement an SGMII function.

You will need to use a MAC Core (Altera Tri-Speed_Ethernet) and a PCS function to implement SGMII.