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14 years ago

SATA host IP for cyclone IV GX ?

Hi, I planning to develop a SATA interface to plug a SSD to save video sequences. I would like to use the cyclone IV GX family. I have found a development kit and a daughter card (cyclone I...
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14 years ago

Yes, I noticed that you cannot have one without the other. We used the 8B/10B block provided by the mega wizard and that worked fine. The ALTGX will give you the PHY layer and the 8B/10B. You will then need to add the scrambler and the rest on top of that to complete the link layer.

Is there a reason you are not using the 8B/10B provided by the ALTGX config?