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16 years ago

LVDS Transmitter and Receiver in Stratix II

hi all, i am designing a board using stratix II FPGA (EP2S15F484C3).. I want to know whether this FPGA has the inbuilt lvds transmitter and receiver or i have to use external lvds transmitte...
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16 years ago

Normally, you instantiate a LVDS transmitter or receiver by assigning LVDSI/O standard to a single ended port pin with an optional DIFFIO_xxp function. The inverted DIFFIO_xxn is then selected by the Quartus fitter automaticly. There's are also differential I/O low-level primitives, but they are rarely required in standard designs.