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10 years ago

Global, Local, Regional, and Peripheral clocks

Hi All, How can I know what pins could be used as the Global, Local, Regional, and Peripheral clocks in the ArriaV device (as an example)? What difference between these clocks? Where to read ab...
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10 years ago

Read the Clock Networks section of the arria v device handbook (https://www.altera.com/en_us/pdfs/literature/hb/arria-v/av_5v2.pdf). Table 4-1 shows you exactly which pins you should use to access the clock resources available. Avoid specifically instantiating the ALTCLKCTRL IP and let Quartus chose the appropriate resources needed for your design.

Cheers,

Alex