LVDS SERDES User Guide: Agilex™ 5 FPGAs and SoCs

ID 813929
Date 4/08/2024
Public
Document Table of Contents

1. Agilex™ 5 LVDS SERDES Overview

Updated for:
Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Suite 24.1
The Agilex™ 5 I/O system includes four types of I/O interfaces—high-speed I/O (HSIO), high-voltage I/O (HVIO), Secure Device Manager (SDM) I/O, and Hard Processor System (HPS) I/O. Each I/O interface caters to different interfacing requirements.

Agilex™ 5 devices support LVDS serializer/deserializer (SERDES) through the True Differential Signaling I/Os in the HSIO banks. The true differential I/Os are capable of supporting LVDS interfaces, including subsets such as:

  • RSDS
  • Mini-LVDS
  • SLVS
  • Any I/O standards using equivalent electrical specifications

Agilex™ 5 devices support SERDES in all HSIO banks with the following features:

  • Configurable transmitter or receiver on all I/O pins
  • Serialize and deserialize functions up to 1.6 Gbps.
  • Clock data recovery (CDR) function on specific differential channel
  • Configurable 100 Ω differential on-chip termination (OCT RD)
  • Serialize or deserialize factors of 4 and 81
  • I/O standards support for the LVDS SERDES:
    • Transmitter—True Differential Signaling I/O standard at 1.3 V
    • Receiver:
      • DPA mode—True Differential Signaling and SLVS-400 I/O standards
      • Non-DPA mode—True Differential Signaling I/O standard only
1 Serialization factor of 8 is available only in Agilex™ 5 FPGAs production devices.