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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

One or more serdesses, that's the question

I'm building a system with 4 transmit channels, all carrying the same data. What would be the pros and cons of using one serdes and split the output to 4 channels (data and clock) or using a separate...
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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

What type of data and what's the data rate? How much distance are you running the data and over what medium? I assume you are using a fanout buffer of some kind to split the data.

Jake