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13 years ago

cameralink with transceiver pins

Hi all,

I would like to know if it's possible to acquire a Cameralink protocol with the transceiver pins. Indeed, cameralink is a 4 channel LVDS with a 7 serialiasation factor whereas transceiver implement deserialiser with 8 and 10 factor.

May be I can implement an altlvds function and use the transceiver pins ?

Thanks in advance.

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    Altera_Forum
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    13 years ago

    I'm not sure why you would want to use the transceivers to deserialize CameraLink. I have implemented a CameraLink receiver using the ALTLVDS_RX megafunction.

    I'm not sure you can use the gigabit transceiver pins for anything other than the transceivers.
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    12 years ago

    Hey!!

    Im trying to implement the camera receiver on Arria V GX device using ALTLVDS_RX Megafunction. Im stuck as im not able to figure out how the bit slip works. I am getting the data from the camera, but i find that its been shifted to the right by 3 bits. Can you please help me out with the bit alignment.