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15 years agoDedicated Clock Output pin
1- In Altera FPGAs currently I am using Cyclone 4 is there a dedicated clock output pin? 2- Are we encouraged to use dedicated clock output pin or can we use some random I/O register(in the pad) ...
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15 years agoIf not connected to a PLL, the clock ouput pins will work as regular I/O. If you don't utilize PLLs in your design, there's no purpose of referring to dedicated clock outputs.