*additional <u>PL resources are neglectable</u> with respect to the Microblaze-based approach

*last but not least, <u>physical link is not affected at all</u>: normal operating, while monitoring is continuously in progress, is guaranteed by the integrated circuitry of GTP/GTX transceivers<ref name="UG482">''UG482 7 Series FPGAs GTP Transceivers User Guide'', http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/ug482_7Series_GTP_Transceivers.pdf</ref><ref name="UG476">''UG476 7 Series FPGAs GTX/GTH Transceivers User Guide'', http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/ug476_7Series_Transceivers.pdf</ref>.

==Conclusions==