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16 years ago

max CID length for transceivers

Does anyone know what is the max CID (consecutive identical digits) length the CDR can tolerate before it loses its lock on the incoming data? I've been reading through the docs for the Stratix IV t...
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16 years ago

I guess, there's no explicite specification, because all relevant Gigabit physical layers are using 8b/10b encoding, which has a well known CID length.