LVDS interconnection

[NewstHet]

Hey,
I have a little trouble in gathering information about how to connect board-to-board by LVDS (GPIO).

I need to connect one parallella 7010 (24 gpio) to another parallella 7010 (24 gpio). by my understanding ,it will leave me with 12 signals.

I'm new to LVDS so I have a noob questions:

1. What is the Bandwidth of that connection?
2. Do I just connect the GPIO pines by pure LVDS cable or do I need to use some kind of LVDS serializer/deserializer ?

As I said I'm new to LVDS, when using single ended I know what to do with the input/output signal. differential gets it's input by GPIOx_N_P.
3. How do I read/write the values while programming the parallella FPGA/Board.

Thanks!

[FHuettig]

[NewstHet]

Thank You very much!

you gave me a good direction to follow and work on some theory.

[voyager]