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13 years ago

ArriaII transceiver oversampling

Hi folks, I've been looking everywhere but cannot find an answer to this problem. I know I can recover low rate data using oversampling and lock to reference mode (this works fine with ...
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10 years ago

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I'm not sure if this option is available to you, but its an interesting trick :)

Cheers,

Dave

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Thank for reply, unfortunately I did not have that option to modify the data before it gets into the transceiver.

My tests though showed that, while oversampling worked fine, the minimum rate of the data had to be >270Mbps, otherwise the transceiver clock would drift with respect to the data (no lock). That is a useful trick to try in future though.