Arria V FPGA RF Development Kit: Does Not have any SMA GPIO I/O OUTPUT

Hello Altera Forum guys,

I was wondering if someone can provide me an advise for this issue, currently i have a code for

implemented a trigger from the FPGA to send outside using an SMA or SMB. So then, my question

is given that i have not available any GPIO SMA for assign this signal, what kind of PIN can use for

send this trigger signal outside.

I realized that this FPGA board only has a Bullseye SMA conector, 2 SMA Tx/2 SMA Rx Transceivers

which are for differential signaling and 2 TX/RX SMB for a SDI Video Output interface:

Transmitter Pin Assignments

SMA_A_TX_R17_N B4 LVDS or 2.5-V Transceiver channel

SMA_A_TX_R17_P B3 LVDS or 2.5-V Transceiver channel

Receiver Pin Assignments

SMA_B_10G_RX_N1 H38 LVDS or 2.5-V Transceiver channel

SMA_B_10G_RX_P1 H39 LVDS or 2.5-V Transceiver channel

And another option is use the SMB connector which is a SDI Video Port but also is differential signaling

probably is not a good idea use this driver for only send a signal outside because is too complex chip?

SDI_A_TX_P AH3 1.4-V PCML SDI video input P

SDI_A_TX_N AH4 1.4-V PCML SDI video input N

SDI_A_TX_RSET — 3.3-V Device reset pull up register

SDI_A_TX_EN AK31 2.5-V Device enable

SDI_A_TX_SD_HDN M20 2.5-V High definition select

So i only need to send the trigger signal outside to measurements purposes, but i cannot find any pin

in the FPGA board to assign it.

Thank you,

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Alex