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Chloé_Russell
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7 years ago

Clocks and pin planner

Hi, I'm using an Arria 10 and trying to assign my top level ports, according to my schematic, the uart_tx and uart_rx pins are connected to the FPGA through the PIN_G24 and PIN_D24 but when checking...
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sstrell
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7 years ago

What part number are you using? Is this an SoC device? Are you sure you have the correct pin numbers? When you hover your cursor over these pins in the Pin Planner, does the tooltip indicate that an alternate function of these pins is UART? It's strange that a dedicated clock pin would have this function (and it seems incorrect).