AN 901: Implementing Analog-to-Digital Converter Dual Link Design with Agilex™ 7 FPGA E-Tile JESD204C RX IP

ID 683537
Date 11/30/2024
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1.1. ADC to Intel Agilex® 7 Dual Link Design Overview

The design example Platform Designer system and top-level HDL file are designed for easy implementation of a JESD204C dual link use case. In the top-level HDL file, each link in a JESD204C link use case corresponds to an instantiation of a JESD204C Intel® FPGA IP and a pattern checker​. The dual link design is created by adding multiple JESD204C Intel® FPGA IPs and pattern checkers to a single link design example. The LINK parameter at the top-level HDL generates multiple pattern checkers. You must duplicate JESD204C Intel® FPGA IPs in the Platform Designer and make connections to the pattern checkers. For a synchronized dual link, AND gates are used to combine the alignment signals.

Figure 2.  Platform Designer System of the Single Link Design Example

The j204c_rx_ip subsystem in the design example contains one RX IP to interface with one ADC. To interface with multiple synchronized converters, the j204c_rx_ip should contain multiple IPs.