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16 years ago

Deskew FIFO, RX phase compensation FIFO: same battle ?

The Stratix IV GX transceiver documentation mentions 2 blocks in the PCS that seem to perform the same function: the deskew FIFO and the RX phase compensation FIFO . Could anyone tell me in whi...
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16 years ago

The Deskew FIFO's are only neccesary, and in fact only available in XAUI mode.

A good explenation can be found on page 1-72 of the handbook (vol.2, rev. nov. 2009).

Hope that helps...