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15 years ago

Cyclone IV GX Tranceivers

I am trying to interface a tranceiver link to a fiber link. The fiber link expects lvpecl. How exactly would I interface that. The tranceivers on the Cyclone IV transmit 1.5 PCML, and th...
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15 years ago

Erm..

Acording to the datasheet, LVPECL and PCML are only supported as clock inputs. General clock or dedicated REFCLK for transceivers.

Transceiver I/Os should still be LVDS.