Dual Link JESD setup for independent DAC cores

Question

I found this point on Product Highlight section(Page 1) of AD9174 datasheet. 
 I went through the Start-Up sequence for JESD mode setup and found ways to configure dual link(repeating SPI writes on register 0x300,0x475,0x453 & 0x458) respectively. 
 I have a doubt. Let's say I want to go for JESD mode 4, having L=4,M=4.Now configuring dual JESD link I would do as asked in the start up sequence section, but how do I know that link 0 corresponds to which DAC core, i.e. DAC0 or DAC1.and similarly for Link1 as well. 
 I wanted to have M=4 (2x complex(I/Q) channels per DAC core data path), so setting link 0 & link 1 separately don't tell me if M=4 corresponds DAC0 or DAC1 core. 
 Any suggestions on the same would be of much help. 
 Sourav

kberry · Accepted Answer

Hi Sourav, 
 Link 0 corresponds to DAC0 and link1 to DAC1. The physical lanes can be optionally remapped to different logical lanes, of which the first half will correspond to link0 and the second half to link1, as described in the screenshot below. 
 Your JESD mode will be duplicated per link. If you use mode 4 each link uses 4 lanes and 2 complex channels per DAC. You can set the NCOs/gain/etc differently for each link datapath, but the I/Q data is the same for both. Is that what you are asking?)

kberry · Answer

Yes, modes 8 and 9 used in the default modulator switch configuration have M=2, 1 channel per core. The note in table 13 showing 2 channels per core is only valid in the below modulator switch setup: each main datapath has a single complex channel, but the two are summed after the main NCOs and sent to a single daccore, which is what is meant by 2 channels per core. If you do not use configuration 3 then the single channel-fed main datapaths go straight to each dac, and you have 1 channel per dac. 
 Another note is that the 2464 iBW listed for modes 8/9 in your screenshot is also only valid using the modulator switch config below, where two wideband channels are summed into one dac. In the default config you will have 1540*0.8=1232MHz iBW.

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