High speed data transfer with FPGAs and QSFP+modules
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Ammendola, Roberto; Biagioni, Andrea; Chiodi, Giacomo; Frezza, Ottorino; Cicero, Francesca Lo; Lonardo, Alessandro; Lunadei, Riccardo; Paolucci, Pier; Rossetti, Davide; Salamon, Andrea; Salina, Gaetano; Simula, Francesco; Tosoratto, Laura; Vicini, Piero
- Source
- IEEE Nuclear Science Symposuim & Medical Imaging Conference Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2010 IEEE. :1323-1325 Oct, 2010
- Subject
- Nuclear Engineering
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Bioengineering
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Transceivers
Connectors
Clocks
Bandwidth
Field programmable gate arrays
Copper
Data communication
data acquisition
field programmable gate arrays
serial transceivers
high speed interconnect
- Language
- ISSN
- 1082-3654
We present test results and characterization of a data transmission system based on a last generation FPGA and a commercial QSFP+ module. QSFP+ standard defines a hot-pluggable transceiver available in copper or optical cable assemblies for an aggregated bandwidth of up to 40 Gbps. We implemented a complete testbench based on a commercial development card mounting an Altera Stratix IV FPGA with 24 serial transceivers at 8.5 Gbps, together with a custom mezzanine hosting three QSFP+ modules. We present test results and signal integrity measurements up to an aggregated bandwidth of 12 Gbps.