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13 years ago

Operating the LVDS transceivers at top speeds

At least the Arria GX family is announced as providing multiple 3.125 GBit links. As it seems, these speeds are not readily accessible. The ALTLVDS component somehow doesn't provide a combination of ...
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13 years ago

Indeed, wrong component.

The ALTLVDS function is for normal I/Os, which can only achieve ~840 Mbps.

To achieve higher speed, you need to use the transceivers, via the ALTGXB function.