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arno_va
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2 years ago
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Shared reconfiguration controller for 2 (separate) transceivers

For my design I'm using a Cyclone V FPGA with 3 transceivers. My design requires 2 separate (duplex) transceiver fiber links. To accomplish this I'm using 2 separate transceiver instances and I assum...
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    arno_va
    2 years ago

    Hi Zying,

    One small question. Is it correct that when I create 2 separate transceiver instances, I need a (single) reconfig-controller with the following settings: "Number of reconfig interfaces = 4" and "Optional interface grouping = 2,2" ?

    Kind regards,

    Arno

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ZiYing_Intel
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2 years ago

Hi amo_va,

I would suggest you to use one reconfig controller. The same triplet can only be driven by no more than one reconfiguration controller. Thus, the two channels need to be driven by the same reconfig controller.

Best regards,

zying