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14 years ago

Example designs for communicating two Altera boards

I am looking for example designs or tutorials showing how to communicate two Altera boards using simple protocols. The purpose is to see how the two devices interact by transmitting data back and for...
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14 years ago

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If the board has two transmitters and two receivers on the SMA connectors, then you could use two SMA-to-SPF+ adapters. You could then connect two SFP+ cables to a desktop 10Gbps SFP+ card or to two ports on a 10Gbps switch. That way you can have 10Gbps continuous through the link.

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Does this mean instead of using normal Ethernet interface to transfer data from host PC, device/board receive data from host PC via SMA connectors. And to do so, the host PC must be equipped with a 10Gbps SFP+ card? If so, how to realize this transmission? Any tutorial related to this?

Thank you.