Cyclone V Device Handbook: Volume 2: Transceivers

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Date 10/24/2018
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1.3.2.4. Byte Deserializer

The FPGA fabric-transceiver interface frequency has an upper limit. In configurations that have a receiver PCS frequency greater than the upper limit stated, the parallel received data and status signals cannot be forwarded directly to the FPGA fabric because it violates this upper limit for the FPGA fabric-transceiver interface frequency. In such configurations, the byte deserializer is required to reduce the FPGA fabric-transceiver interface frequency to half while doubling the parallel data width.
Note: The byte deserializer is required in configurations that exceed the FPGA fabric-transceiver interface clock upper frequency limit. It is optional in configurations that do not exceed the FPGA fabric-transceiver interface clock upper frequency limit.

The byte deserializer supports operation in single- and double-width modes. The datapath clock rate at the input of the byte deserializer is twice the FPGA fabric–receiver interface clock frequency. After byte deserialization, the word alignment pattern may be ordered in the MSByte or LSByte position.

The data is assumed to be received as LSByte first—the least significant 8 or 10 bits in single-width mode or the least significant 16 or 20 bits in double-width mode.

Table 27.  Byte Deserializer Input Datapath Width Conversion
Mode Byte Deserializer Input Datapath Width Receiver Output Datapath Width
Single Width 8 16
10 20
Double Width 16 32
20 40