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13 years ago

Cyclone IV as transceiver using SMA

Hi all, I am new on the world of the FPGA. I have bought the Cyclone IV GX as i wanted to use it as transceiver. I want to make a transmission through the SMA connectors, but i dont know ...
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13 years ago

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When i am trying to make it work i dont know where to connect some signals like tx_clkout, tx_dataout, or coreclockout.

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I can't help you because I worked with IP generated by MegaWizard (a tool of Quartus).

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Also when i dont understand why for example pll_inclk is in format "std_logic_vector (0 downto 0).

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Altera uses a lot "std_logic_vector(N downto 0)" and N depends of something. In your case N=0, be careful: std_logic_vector(0 downto 0) is a different type of std_logic.

Good luck