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14 years ago

bypass the need for dedicated clock pins

Hi, i am doing a project at the university and the card that my fpga would be on is already printed (The FPGA is EP2S130). I need to get data from SERDES on another card (in LVDS), and becaus...
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14 years ago

For low and medium speed, deserialization can work in LEs. Hardware SERDES won't be usually without an input clock supplied through dedicated clock inputs and fast PLLs.