Hello,
I'm trying to do a glue-less TFT controller for LVDS panels with a spartan 3. I can't just output the data using standard registers since the output data frequency is about 455 Mhz, so I was thinking to use the DDR registers to output these data so my internal clock is 232Mhz which fits into the Spartan 3 capability.
The problem is that I never used differential standards before. Looking at the manual I saw the OBUFDS macro that seems to be exactly what I wanted. But I can't connect the Q port of the OFDDRCPE macro to the input of OBUFDS, it doesn't work :
ERROR:LIT - OBUF symbol "OFDDRCPE_inst/OBUF1" (output signal=lcd_d1_int) can only drive IBUF, but it is driving pin I of OBUFDS symbol "OBUFDS_inst" (output signal=lcd_d1). Errors found during logical drc.
I've seen some xilinx app note about SDI that uses the same "trick" and the block diagram shows a DDR Flip/Flops + Mux followed by differential output buffer but no code was provided ...
Thanks.
Sylvain
PS: If you give code, I prefer VHDL but If you only have verilog, I'll try to translate it myself.