1. OPTO Link using Altera Stratix GX transceiver Jerzy Zieliński PERG group Warsaw

2. 2 agenda Stratix GX Short Introduction Transmission Basic Block Diagram Hardware-Only Based Optical link Internal Interface in Stratix GX FPGA Environment Implementation 2.5Gbps optical link, with Matlab based GUI using Internal Interface Transmission parameters measurement

3. 3 Altera Stratix GX Introduction Up to 20 channels for 3.125 Gbps transceiver blocks Up to 41,250 Logic Elements, 3 Mb RAM and 638 I/O pins High performance architecture Build in source-synchronous transfer protocols Serial light protocol ready

4. 4 Stratix/Stratix GX Development Board

5. 5 Transmission Basic Block Diagram

6. 6 Hardware-Only Couter Test 8bit Word Basic Transmission  without 8b/10b coding  Errors on Differential Lines  Errors during Transmission 8bit Word Transmission with 8b/10b coding  No Error in Hardware-Based-Visual-Only Test

7. 7 Only-Hardware Counter Test

8. 8 Internal Interface FPGA Environment  Multi-Protocol External Communication  Command & Status Words  Internal Interface BUS  Internal Interface with Components Communication Stratix GX OPTO component  Internal Interface Implementation Ready  Full Integration with Internal Interface Communication  Other Components Communication Possible

9. 9 Internal Interface Inside FPGA

10. 10 Matlab based GUI Connection Initialization Transmission Control Transmission Initialization Latency Measurement I/O Read Bit-Error-Rate Measurement

11. 11 Matlab based GUI 2.5Gbps optical link, with Matlab based Graphical User Interface using Internal Interface  Transmision Initialization  Transmitted Word Control  Bit Error Rate Tests  Latency Measurement GUI-to-HARDWARE Full Control

12. 12 Transmission Parameters Transmission Rate2.5Gbps Word Length8bit Clock Frequency156.25MHz First Transmitted After200ns Latency30 c.c. ~200ns

13. 13 Future Plans 16bit Channel Mode Multi-Channel Transmission Component Link to Xilinx Virtex II PRO, using the same Transmission Protocol

14. OPTO Link using Altera Stratix GX transceiver Jerzy Zieliński PERG group Warsaw