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9 years agoCyclone V GT Dev Kit - External xcvr refclk for HSMC
Hi, I’m using the Cyclone V GT development board. I would like to provide each transceiver bank with other clock sources; one HSMC transceiver externally through the HSMC and the other two from...
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9 years agoI think that if the external clocks comes from one of the pins in the HSMC itself, it would be possible to perform a loopback in the FPGA (at the cost of additional jitter) to the HSMC clock in. Not sure about the supported banks though. My idea is something like this:
http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=67&no=129&partno=1