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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

TSE 1000BASE-X/SGMII PCS only w/LVDS I/O

Hey Guys, I know this has been discussed a few times, but I couldn't find the answer I was looking for. I'm using a Stratix IV GX board with the Marvell Phy. I have a stripped down version ...
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16 years ago

I have not used the PCS block in isolation yet but I considered it once. The biggest caveat I observed was that the interface uses a clock enable which becomes active in 10Mbps and 100Mbps mode. However, it sounds like you're running in 1Gbps mode so that would not be an issue.

Jake