Sundance SMT148FX - Manual (Page 16)

4.1.14 RSL
The Virtex 4 FX FPGA provides 16 RSL (Rocket Serial Link) interfaces. 8 of these are
connected to the 4 TIM sites (2 per site).
Four RSLs are connected to 4 SATA style connectors thus allowing inter-board
connectivity.
The remaining 4 are presented on a standard RSL connector. See the RSL
specification for details on the connector type.
The SATA style connectors do NOT provide a SATA interface using the
standard Sundance FPGA firmware.
RSL interfaces provide a high-speed (250Mbytes/s per link) bi-directional
connection. Fast communication between TIMs should use these links wherever
possible.
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