High-Speed Interfaces

When implementing high-speed interfaces, serializers / deserializers with the appropriate word alignment function are usually used. In order to keep the effort involved in implementing such interfaces low, the use of a special module generator is recommended. The Lattice Semiconductor Generic Double Data Rate Input/Output (GDDR I/O) Module is designed to be used in a wide range of applications in which high-speed data transfer is required. This TechWeb describes the general structure of a high-speed interface and demonstrates the module generator using an example.