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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 table 4-1 for the mapping of FVAL, etc. to the DS90CR287 pins. Note also the strange mapping of data bits.

Two video streams with independent clocks will require two DS90CR287s. I see your confusion regarding pages 5-2 and 3-1. I'm not aware of any frame grabbers that will support two, independent CameraLink inputs with different clocks on the same MDR-26 connector. They may be out there though.