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Altera_Forum
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14 years agoStratix IV GX dev kit
Hi all, I am looking at buying the Stratix IV dev kit. It comes with 8 transceivers routed to SMA connectors, but I need 16. Is it feasible to (with a decent performance) synchronize two of thi...
Altera_Forum
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14 years ago --- Quote Start --- "can you give more information about what you're trying to do?" what I want to do is to have 16 high speed transmitters that I am going to use just as high speed serializers with around 5 Gbps max rate (protocol in Basic mode, all the blocks bypassed, only a high speed serializer per channel going on). The only requirement is that I need all of them to be synchronized --- Quote End --- Synchronous, or synchronized? The channels will all be synchronous, because you can use a common reference clock. However, there is no guarantee the serial data streams from transmitters are time-aligned (synchronized). What exactly are you trying to do? Cheers, Dave