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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Advice about industrial bus for 3,7 Gbps transfers

Dear all, I need to make transfers PC-FPGA based system and need to select a bus for industrial environment. I was considering to use 10 Gpbs Ethernet or 3.0 USB but I am not sure this is the b...
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16 years ago

Might be a good option as well, but I'm not familiar with it.

You may (or not) have problems getting the full 3.6 Gbit/s out of USB 3.0.

In any case, I might be a bit off in regard for prices, so try and get some quotes before you panic. :)

BTW, some of Xilinx's Virtex5 and Virtex6 include a PCIe 1.1 endpoint for free. Maybe these are more expensive FPGA than you were planning to use but you might want to check out prices for a Xilinx based solution as well.

Xilinx's equivalent to SeriaLite II is Aurora.