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White Papers

their amplitude. This report illustrates the effects that an industry-standard cable, the HSSDC2, has
on waveforms transmitted from a Virtex-II Pro device.
White Papers

WP157: Usage Models for Multi-Gigabit Serial Transceivers

This document provides an overview of the various usage models for high-speed, point-to-point,
serial transceiver technology. While not intending to represent all the applications of this
technology, it provides a basic categorization and description of some of the most common uses.
WP160: Emulating External SERDES Devices with

Embedded RocketIO Transceivers

The Virtex-II Pro Platform FPGA provides an attractive single-chip solution to serial transceiver
design problems that previously required multiple devices. This white paper describes several
different dedicated external SERDES devices, and presents alternative design solutions using the
Virtex-II Pro Platform FPGA with RocketIO transceivers. The four external devices discussed here
are the Vitesse™ single-channel VSC7123, the Vitesse quadchannelVSC7216-01, the Texas
Instruments™ TLK3101, and the Mindspeed™ CX27201. The features offered by each of these
devices are presented, along with a discussion of how the RocketIO transceiver can afford an
alternative to each multi-chip solution. Links to Xilinx information resources for the Virtex-II Pro
Platform FPGA and embedded RocketIO transceiver are presented in the final section.
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