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9 years ago

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 S...
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9 years ago

You cant use the high speed transceiver pins as general purpose I/O.

If you want to send a signal out from those, you would need to instantiate a minimal transceiver IP core and all the required PHY/reconfig controller/etc. You then send the data out using the PCML differential standard and have a non-ac-coupled CML to TTL (or CMOS) IC at the other end.