BASE-R Transceivers on Stratix V FPGA

Hi,

I am trying to use 2 BASE-R transceivers on a Stratix V FPGA to connect to two of it's SFP+ ports so that I can send/receive data between the SFP+ ports and an SPF modules (a basic external loopback for testing). I have the transceivers and reconfiguration controllers instantiated and the SFP+ port pins assigned to the appropriate pins on the Stratix V chip. My question is (being fairly new at all of this), how can I send some actual data, say a test bit, to an SFP module and record it being received at the other SFP+ port? Is there some additional Altera IP I am missing?

Thanks in advance