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Altera_Forum
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18 years ago

Solution for a high-performance "translation" board

Hello, I'm in the very initial stages of design of a card that should do the following: * Receive data from 4-5 optical links. The data comes at ~200MBit/s per link - on a single data line...
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18 years ago

If you can find an external IC that will do your CDR, that is actually the best way to go for your design. It will present you with your 100 or 200 MHz clock which you can drive into any FPGA. That way you wouldn't need a transceiver part and you can save some money.

Jake