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8 years ago

LVDS connector/cable

Good morning. I am starting to design a board that mounts an Altera FPGA. This board needs to communicate with another that mounts the same FPGA. The communication takes place via 10 LVDS lines,...
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8 years ago

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there are many manufacturers

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Go look on the Samtec site. They make the Altera HSMC connectors, the Xilinx FMC connectors, and Mictor connectors. These parts are all used for transceivers, so would easily transport 600Mbps.

I've used VHDCI/SCSI cables and connectors for 250Mbps, but probably wouldn't use them for much higher than that.

The other option is to use the PCB as a connector, eg., PCIe, mini-PCIe, etc, use the PCB as an edge connector. Depending on your mechanical arrangement, that might work too.

Cheers,

Dave