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14 years ago

ALTLVDS pin parametres in assignment editor

Hello everybody, I have a probleme with my project, I have generated a ALTLVDS witha a external PLL megacore, I add an ALTIObuf iorder to have two outputs (lvds_out+ and lvds_out-) I simulate every t...
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14 years ago

The SERDES pins can only be used with the ALTGX megafunction. The transmitters are PCML, while the receivers can operate with PCML or LVDS.

You cannot use them as a general purpose LVDS pin. However, it might be possible to use them for your application; it just depends on what that application is.

Cheers,

Dave