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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

It sounds like you control both ends of this link? If so, and depending on what family you're targeting, it may make sense to use gigabit transceivers instead of LVDS. You may even be able to aggregate all 10 channels into one 6Gbps link.