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14 years ago

altera transceiver support burst mode?

Hi, is there any possibility for altera stratix ii gx transceivers to support burst mode operation? any ideas?
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14 years ago

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What do you mean by burst mode?

Cheers,

Dave

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Hi Dave,

As we all know, transceivers need some training sequence to synchronize. Like XAUI for 10GE, it will send K28.5 and other signaling codes to ensure the lanes aligned and synchronized. If the transmission mode is not continuous, that is burst mode, high speed CDR will be required in order to recover the packet format. I have no idea whether Altera transceivers have that capability to recover the packet in ns scale, and how to operate on it?

Just for open discussion.