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18 years ago

Simple Question from a Novice

I am fairly new to FPGA programming, and I have a simple and probably easy question, but I am going to ask it anyway: When a chip pinout has differential pin pairs, but says that they can be used ...
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18 years ago

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... or is the inverted pin function only applicable when it is configured in the firmware as a differential pin?

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That is how it works. You don't need to do anything special when placing a single-ended signal at a pin location that optionally supports the n leg of a differential pair.