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18 years agoHSMC Pinout on Stratix II
Hi, I am using a PCIe Stratix II dev kit. I am a little confused about the hsmc pinouts from the fpga. For example one of the pins I want to use is hsma_tx_d_p[0]... First question is th...
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18 years agoThe HSMC signal names sounds almost self-explananatory to me, also without knowing a specification. You have single-ended data lines and line pairs intended for differential signals. The latter are connected to Stratix I/O pins capable of LVDS differential IO, Rx or Tx respectively. Other lines are intended as clocks, connected to dedicated clock FPGA pins.
As with all designs, the actual usage of the signals depends on your design. E.g., if you want to use LVDS Tx from FPGA, you are restricted to dedicated FPGA pins, otherwise you can use these pins as you like. Then the p and n designators wouldn't mean a thing.