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Honored ContributorHi Darkwave. I've just been through this so I think I might be able to help. To get the Custom Phy, you have to edit the altera_components.ipx file in the ip/altera directory under your Quartus installation. Under altera_xcvr_custom_phy, change the COMPONENT_EDITABLE field to true. In 11.0, it's line 4333. I was able to insert transceiver instances that matched my clocks and it works fine.
For each full duplex channel that you'd like to run the toolkit on simultaneously, you need about 6 different components. Three for the generator and three for the receiver. The Qsys project gets out of hand pretty quick but I wasn't brave enough to try the nested designs so I ended up with 2 channels at a time. For my board, I'm transmitting and receiving from a backplane so I made a loopback connector to test all of my paths. Hope this helps!
