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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

Can the TX of Transceiver-A be routed to the RX of Transceiver-B internal to the FPGA

Hello, This question is for both the Stratix II GX High Speed Serial Transceivers and the Stratix IV GX High Speed Serial Transceivers Can the TX of Transceiver-A be routed to the RX of ...
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17 years ago

Yes. The transceivers support an internal loopback mode TX->RX. This is an option that you can set in the megawizard when creating your transceiver instance.

Note however that there is no way to loop in the reverse direction (RX->TX).

Jake