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Hello, i would like to transmit a 10G clock so as to use it as a trigger to another lab equipment through the fpga high speed transceivers. I tried sending "1010101010..." to a transmitters paral...
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Honored ContributorHi evanchat,
Due to the 101010 data pattern, your frequency will be half'ed. Ideally to output 10GHz clock, you would need to transmitter 101010 data pattern at 20Gbps. As I understand it, you might need to use Stratix V GT to achieve this 20G data rate.
