Plug & Play Signal Integrity
Available only in high-performance Stratix® IV GX and Stratix II GX FPGAs with integrated multi-gigabit transceivers, Altera's Plug & Play Signal Integrity gives you the ability to change the position of backplane cards on the fly while eliminating the painstaking process of manually reconfiguring your backplane equalization settings.
View the demo video to see Plug & Play Signal Integrity in action:
The second component of Altera's Plug & Play Signal Integrity offering, Adaptive Dispersion Compensation Engine (ADCE), is available in all 40-nm Stratix® IV GX FPGAs and all production Stratix II GX FPGAs, and can be enabled in designs compiled with Quartus® II software version 7.2 and later.
With Altera's Plug & Play Signal Integrity, you can design systems with truly universal cards that plug into multiple card positions in system backplanes (as shown in Figure 1). Altera’s hot-socketable transceivers, coupled with ADCE technology (PDF), deliver Plug & Play Signal Integrity where the same card configuration can be used, irrespective of slot position in most systems.
Figure 1. Hot-Socketable Plug & Play Signal Integrity
Wide ranging benefits include reduced card-type inventories, increased system flexibility, reduced maintenance and training costs, simplified order code management, and a reduced effort in the lab in terms of characterizing every card slot to determine the optimal signal integrity setting for each one.
Design with Altera and design with confidence, knowing that the manufacturing, materials, temperature, voltage and silicon process variations are being continuously monitored and compensated for by the ADCE to deliver the best eye opening and system BER performance.
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