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13 years ago

Cyclone IV GXB vs dual-purpose differential transmitter/receiver channels

Hello everybody I am desiging a very small application with EP4CGX15BF14C6N. In my circuitry I will need some LVDS lines. I saw that EP4CGX15BF14C6N has transever channel. Since this is my firs...
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13 years ago

If your LVDS signal rates are ~800Mbps or slower, and since you plan on coding everything yourself, you should use the LVDS pins on the device.

The transceiver channels cannot be used without instantiating ALTGX and ALTGX_RECONFIG functions; even to assign pins you must have these blocks!

Cheers,

Dave