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16 years ago

Is it possible to use same LVDS tx clock on different pins at same time?

I am playing with EP2C5T144 chip. I have two Cat5 cables to two slave devices. For my data I am using two LVDS pairs for data and one pair for transmit clock. As it is small device I am using same LV...
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16 years ago

I placed "ALTCLKCTRL" megafunction "for global clock" and now errors from quartus are gone. Also detected tx clock on hardware. In simulation I can see some shift between "original" clock and "clone" clock.

Hope, I'll test it in full hardware set after I decode how LVDS megafunction mixed bits in my output :)