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14 years agoCyclone V LVDS & DDR3 on same bank
Hello, I am planning to use a Cyclone V 5CGTFD7D5F31 with the following requirements; - 32 bit DDR3 interface Top and Bottom (64 bit total) - 68 LVDS input p...
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14 years agoIt's quite obvious, that the Arria V and Cyclone V IO topology is more or less identical. By the present documentation status, one would expect, that the VCCPD powered LVDS input buffers would work in a 1.5 V bank, but differential OCT won't.
As long as the support guy doesn't say which part of the Altera device manual is wrong and in which detail, I would consider the possibility that he just doesn't exactly. And the answer must not necessarily be well founded. Of course lack of information can be a sufficient reason to stay away from the doubted solution.