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9 years ago

How to use LVDS pins on CycloneIV bank8 for receive?

I need to configure LVDS receive pins on bank8 of cycloneIV. It is dedicate to LVDS receive but not LVDS TX. I saw on handbook said on bank8 the LVDS do not support true LVDS for tx and need to addti...
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9 years ago

That's correct - for Cyclone IV. Newer families - including Cyclone V - have dedicated Tx & Rx pairs. So, that wouldn't be the case.

If in doubt, try it. Run it through Quartus with the pin assignments you want. Quartus will tell you if it's invalid.

Cheers,

Alex