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18 years ago

LVDS for between-board communication

I have saw the thread http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3188&highlight=lvds (http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3188&highlight=lvds). In my project, i will use two ...
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18 years ago

You may prefer external drivers, if you want to avoid any risk of external overvoltages damaging your FPGAs. Apart from this, a 200 MBps LVDS connection through CAT5 cables shouldn't be a problem.You should pay attention to keep the common mode voltage differences between the boards low.