Serial Front Panel Data Port (sFPDP) Serial Front Panel Data Port (Serial FPDP) is an industry standard, low-overhead, low-latency, high speed serial communication link defined by ANSI/VITA 17.1-2003. sFPDP is ideal for use in transceiver based FPGAs from Altera, Xilinx, and Microsemi to implement high-speed FPGAcommunication system backplanes, high-bandwidth remote sensor syst..