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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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Just to say I made a print and I am successfully driving a SFP fibre-optic module (I used a Finistar FTLF1322P1xTR). There was no circuitry needed, the voltage swing is the only consideration because the SFP module is capacitor coupled and terminated anyway. It was a little scary because I did this when the Cyclone IV GX was a very new chip and nobody could say if it would work. But everything is working just fine. No problem.
