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10 years ago

Cyclone V - major transceiver misunderstanding

Hi all, I'm struggling with my understanding about Cyclone V transceivers in SX/GX devices. We have a custom board with 2 Cyclone V FPGAs. The one is an SX and the other one a GX device. ...
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10 years ago

I would suggest that you start your design with simple transceiver setup. For example, single channel with fixed data pattern. Try to start with minimum data width first ie 8 bit. Simulation your design before trying on hardware.