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Hi,
As I understand it, you have some inquiries related to the A10 ATX PLL dynamic reconfiguration. You seems to observe that after reconfiguration, your ATX PLL does not achieve lock. To facilitate further debugging, just would like to check with you on the following:
1. As I understand it, the ATX PLL support embedded streamer and multi profile dynamic reconfiguration. Just wonder if you have a chance to try with it.
2. Just wonder if you have had a chance to run a Modelsim simulation to verify the functional behavior? If not, it is recommended for your to create a simple test design using embedded streamer and multi profile. Then run through the Modelsim simulation.
Please let me know if there is any concern. Thank you.
- CHebl5 years ago
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Hi @CheePin_C_Intel ,
sorry for answering this late.
The embedded Streamer isn't really an option, because I have lots of profiles I'd need to embedd.
I did a QuestaSim simulation though and found everything to work when reconfiguring the PLL manually.
There are some weird effects in the simulation though. I doublecheck all registervalues before and after PreCISE calibration and found, that all register values before calibration were as specified, while all registervalues after calibration changed (according to documentation are even incorrect (e.g. wrong counter values), even though the correct frequency appears). This doesn't happen in the real hardware, but then again the real hardware doesn't run correctly.This leads me to the assumption, that maybe something with the CLKUSR is wrong. I set the "Device initialization clock source" to "CLKUSR Pin" in "Device and Pin Options" -> "General" and have a free-running 125 MHz clock connected to this pin. Do I need to take care of something additionally in HDL or assignment editor?
Edit: I found that in Arria V and Cyclone V channel bonding mode prohibits ATX PLL reconfiguration. While I didn't find the same in Arria 10 documentation I wonder if the ATX PLL behaves the same.
This is the registermap
Address Value pre calibraton Value post calibration Function 0x103 0x21 0xbf 0x104 0x36 0x7f 0x105 0x05 0x47 0x106 0x32 0x3f 0x107 0x00 0x3c N Counter 0x108 0x0b 0x7f L Counter 0x109 0x50 0xff M Counter 0x10a 0x04 0x7f 0x10b 0x00 0xe1 0x10c 0x01 0xff 0x10d 0x00 0xff 0x10e 0x00 0xff 0x10f 0x00 0xff 0x110 0x15 0x3d 0x111 0x00 0x70 0x11a 0x80 0xe0 0x11b 0x00 0xc0 0x11c 0x00 0xe0 0x11d 0x00 0xe0 0x11f 0x00 0x60