Arria® V Device Handbook: Volume 2: Transceivers

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Date 5/29/2020
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4.5.2. Serial Digital Interface Transceiver Datapath

Figure 123. SDI Mode Transceiver Datapath


Transmitter Datapath

The transmitter datapath in the HD-SDI configuration with a 10-bit wide FPGA fabric-transceiver interface consists of the transmitter phase compensation FIFO and the 10:1 serializer. In HD-SDI and 3G-SDI configurations with 20-bit wide FPGA fabric-transceiver interface, the transmitter datapath also includes the byte serializer.

Note: In SDI mode, the transmitter is purely a parallel-to-serial converter. You must implement the SDI transmitter functions, such as the scrambling and cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code generation, in the FPGA logic array.

Receiver Datapath

In the 10-bit channel width SDI configuration, the receiver datapath consists of the clock recovery unit (CRU), 1:10 deserializer, word aligner in bit-slip mode, and receiver phase compensation FIFO. In the 20-bit channel width SDI configuration, the receiver datapath also includes the byte deserializer.

Note: You must implement the SDI receiver functions, such as descrambling, framing, and CRC checker, in the FPGA logic array.

Receiver Word Alignment and Framing

In SDI systems, the word aligner in the receiver datapath is not useful because the word alignment and framing happen after descrambling. Altera recommends that you drive the rx_bitslip signal of the PHY IP core low to avoid having the word aligner insert bits in the received data stream.