8.3.8 Single or Dual Link Configuration
The DAC38RF82 (or DAC38RF89) JESD204B interface can be configures with one or two links. The advantage of using two links, one for each DAC, is that one link can be re-established without affecting the other link and DAC.
The configuration for each mode of operation are:
- Dual DAC, dual link
- Program fields OCTETPATH0_SEL to OCTETPATH7_SEL in multi-DUC paged registers JESD_CROSSBAR1 (8.5.57) and JESD_CROSSBAR2 (8.5.58) so that each multi-DUC will pick data off of the appropriate SerDes lane.
- Appropriate bits in field LANE_ENA in multi-DUC paged register JESD_LN_EN (8.5.45) must be set for each multi-DUC enable the lanes used.
- Field ONE_DAC_ONLY in register RESET_CONFIG (8.5.1) should be ‘0’ (default).
- Dual DAC, single link
- Program OCTETPATH0_SEL to OCTETPATH7_SEL in multi-DUC paged registers JESD_CROSSBAR1 (8.5.57) and JESD_CROSSBAR2 (8.5.58) so that each multi-DUC will pick data off the appropriate SerDes lane.
- Appropriate bits in field LANE_ENA in multi-DUC paged register JESD_LN_EN (8.5.45) must be set for each multi-DUC enable the lanes used.
- Set field ONE_LINK_ONLY to ‘1’ to configure TXENABLE output.
- Single DAC, single link
- Set Field ONE_DAC_ONLY in register RESET_CONFIG (8.5.1) to ‘1’ to gate clocks to unused multi-DUC2 for power savings.
- ONE_LINK_ONLY bit does not matter in this case.