Preface: About This Guide; Guide Contents; Additional Resources; Conventions - Xilinx LogiCORE IP Spartan-6 Getting Started Manual

About This Guide
This getting started guide describes the function and operation of the LogiCORE™ IP GTP
Transceiver Wizard for the Spartan

Guide Contents

This guide contains the following chapters:
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Additional Resources

To find additional documentation, see the Xilinx website at:
To search the Answer Database of silicon, software, and IP questions and answers, or to
create a technical support WebCase, see the Xilinx website at:

Conventions

This document uses the following conventions. An example illustrates each convention.
Spartan-6 FPGA GTP Transceiver Wizard v1.8
UG546 (v1.8) December 14, 2010
Preface, "About this Guide"
list of additional resources, and the conventions used in this document.
Chapter 1, Introduction describes the wrapper core and related information,
including additional resources, technical support, and submitting feedback to Xilinx.
Chapter 2, Installation and Licensing
licensing the Spartan-6 FPGA GTP Transceiver Wizard.
Chapter 3, Running the Wizard
Transceiver Wizard, and a step-by-step tutorial to generate a sample GTP transceiver
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wrapper with the Xilinx
Chapter 4, Quick Start Example Design
included with the GTP Transceiver wrappers. The example design demonstrates how
to use the wrappers and demonstrates some of the key features of the GTP
transceiver.
Chapter 5, Detailed Example Design
design, including a description of files and the directory structure generated by the
Xilinx CORE Generator tool, the purpose and contents of the provided scripts, the
contents of the example HDL wrappers, and the operation of the demonstration test
bench.
http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/index.htm.
http://www.xilinx.com/support/mysupport.htm.
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-6 LXT family.
introduces the organization and purpose of this guide, a
provides information about installing and
provides an overview of the Spartan-6 FPGA GTP
CORE Generator™ tool.
introduces the example design that is
provides detailed information about the example
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