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EXP High-Performance SerDes Module with Easy FPGA Interface

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Low-cost FPGA families have lacked the ability to support high-speed serial interfaces in a cost effective and easy to implement manner. A combination of new high-speed serializer/deserializer (SerDes) products from National Semiconductor® paired with low cost Xilinx® FPGAs enable a wide variety of applications. The Avnet EXP High-Speed SerDes Module contains both transmit and receive signal paths capable of handling up to 3.125 Gbps data rates, and is intended to be paired with select Xilinx Spartan®-3 baseboards. In combination, these boards allow for rapid evaluation and system development with the National Semiconductor DS32ELX0421/0124 high-speed serializer and deserializer.

Key Features

The SerDes is easy because it includes embedded signal conditioning blocks like transmit de-emphasis, receive equalization and DC-balancing, they do not require external system intervention for alignment. In addition, no reference clock is required at the receiver making the clocking scheme simple.

The SerDes is also high performance because it drives inexpensive cables like CAT-5/CAT-6 for longer distances at data rates up to 3.125 Gbps. The National DS32ELX421/0124 innovative PLL and CDR architecture ensure that the SerDes chipset has low output jitter and high tolerance of input jitter.

Half EXP module format
Wide serial data rate 1.25 Gbps to 3.125 Gbps
5-bit LVDS parallel interface to FPGA
Integrated signal conditioning
Fully featured FPGA design included
- Xilinx BERT tester with error insertion
- 12 patterns available for BERT testing
- MicroBlaze™ CPU design
- Terminal interface
- Link status registers/LEDs

Kit Includes

EXP High-Speed Serializer/Deserializer Module
Downloadable documentation and reference design

Attached Files

EXP SerDes Module - Product Brief

Additional Information

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EXP High-Performance SerDes Module with Easy FPGA Interface for Xilinx Spartan-3 EXP enabled baseboards