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gyuunyuu
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4 years ago

I know almost nothing about transceivers, how do I learn how to use them for my benfit?

I am aware of the existence of multi-gigabit transceivers. These can exist as standalone devices or be part of the FPGAs and can be used for very high speed serial data transmission. These are used i...
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4 years ago

Lets start from somewhere. Lets just assume that I want to transmit data really really fast from one FPGA to another, on the same PCB or through a backplane. Now in this world full of flood of terms and things like Ethernet, PCIe, XAUI, SGMII, Interlaken e.t.c e.t.c., how do we know where to start? Lets say I want some rate e.g 2.5 Gb/s. Now what do I do next?