3.1. Introduction to IP Cores
3.2. Installing and Licensing IP Cores
3.3. Altera® FPGA IP Evaluation Mode
3.4. Upgrading IP Cores
3.5. IP Catalog and Parameter Editor
3.6. Design Walkthrough
3.7. GTS JESD204B IP Design Considerations
3.8. GTS JESD204B IP Parameters
3.9. Analog Parameter Settings
3.10. GTS JESD204B IP Component Files
2.6. Channel Bonding
The GTS JESD204B IP supports bonded mode for transmitter and duplex channel bonding.
A bonded transmitter datapath clocking provides low channel-to-channel skew as compared to non-bonded channel configurations.
PMA bonding is automatically enabled when the number of lanes selected fall within the range of 2, 4, 6, and 8.
In bonded channel configuration, the lower transceiver clock skew for all channels result in a lower channel-to-channel skew. For Agilex™ 5 and Agilex™ 3 devices, you must use contiguous channels to enable channel bonding with NRZ PMA transceiver channels. For information on channel bonding, refer to the Bonding Implementation in the GTS Transceiver PHY User Guide.