PL-4 - Technical Details

Technical Details

The interface consists of (per direction):

  • sixteen LVDS pairs for the data path
  • one LVDS pair for control
  • one LVDS pair for clock at half of the data rate
  • two FIFO status lines running at 1/8 of the data rate
  • one status clock

The clocking is Source-synchronous and operates around 700 MHz. Implementations of SPI-4.2 (PL-4) have been produced which allow somewhat higher clock rates. This is important when overhead bytes are added to incoming packets.

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