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14 years ago

8b10b serdes questions

Hello world! I am trying to make a serial link, 400 Mbps in two Cyclones III, 2 channels, 5 serialisation factor (the output of one 8b10b encoder). Though everything seems within specs, there ...
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14 years ago

One way is to use the 10b words to align the deserializer, not the decoder output.

If you know you never transmit a K28.7 then you known whenever your deserializer has 10'b0011111xxx" or a 10'b1100000xxx" it has a properly aligned word.