Stratix V GT tranceivers with unmodified output

Ahh the old nomenclature mix up trick....Indeed I do of course want a serial stream.

Thanks Dave,

Since the GT transceivers only use the PMA, all the PCS encoding is bypassed, I see that. So then does the PMA add any ecoding at all? If not, then the parallel data does come out unadulterated, and I may have a dev board for my problem.

Transmitter delay will not be a problem. The modulation is for an optical link that we want to test and deserialisation will not occur, hence the reason for not wanting any encoding. Once "booted" the tx will run constantly for some arbitrary amount of time.

Regards,

Neil.