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15 years ago

What is the speed for the soft serde in Stratix IV EP4sGX530

. I am using Stratix IV EP4sGX530( C3 speed) . My tool is Quatus II 10.0 We know only Row I/Os support hard serde . so if I create LVDS mpdule in Column I/O , we must check " implement Deser...
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15 years ago

The data rate is limited by the core clock, the involved DDR registers and the I/O. I would expect at least 800 Mbps. But without the hardware SERDES DPA functionality, you'll possibly have difficulties to get meaningful data from the serial input, considering delay skew.