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14 years agoparallel lvds outputs
I need to drive an IR led driver at high speed. the driver has multiple channels (6) an all are paralleled in a single enable input. The driver's enable input is lvds but the input capacitance per pi...
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14 years agoYikes! 760pF is huge.
Quartus will take that capacitance into account for timing analysis if you set it in the board trace model parameters. A quick experiment says that 760 pF is adding 33 ns of delay for a Cyclone III. I think you should be able to use multiple outputs to increase the drive capacity. You should set timing constraints on those outputs and set their load capacitance. If you're using N outputs to drive a single input, then set the load capacitance as 760p/N for each output.