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16 years ago

Driving Cyclone III PLL using general purpose input pin

In Cyclone III can I use PLL with input as a general purpose input pin (and not dedicated clock input pin) ? I don't want delay compensation (which I already assume it wont be able to do). I ju...
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16 years ago

You can't directly drive a global clock from a general purpose pin. You can still use any input as a local clock for some logic though.