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9 years ago

Transceiver passthrough in Cyclone V

Hello! I'm having the following situation and I can't figure out how to do it, after reading the documentation and trying some things I decided to come here for help. I need to connect one tr...
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9 years ago

Hello Dave, thank you for your fast response!

Unfortunately, I don't think this is possible in my case. I'm using the transceivers to receive and transmit SDI video, this means there's no room for idle character insertion which is, if I understand correctly, what the rate-match FIFO does, right?

I've also looked at Altera's documentation configuration examples and it disables the rate-match FIFO for the SDI examples.

Is there something I'm missing?

Regards,

Sebastian.