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11 years ago

CameraLink with Cyclone IV GX

I'm looking at making a CameraLink transmitter using the GX transmitter blocks in the Cyclone IV. ALTGX won't allow me to select a channel width of 7 which is the serialization factor. Is this an i...

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11 years ago

See Figure 1-3 of the transceiver manual: https://www.altera.com/en_us/pdfs/literature/hb/cyclone-iv/cyiv-52001.pdf

The "Byte Serializer" is the "inherent limitation".

CameraLink is very easy to implement just using ALTLVDS and LVDS I/O pins, with obvious limitations of the I/O pin capabilities.

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