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14 years agoLoss of FPGA configuration
To minimize power consumption, I have the Oscillator input of the main part of my Stratix III design gated (glitchfree keeping low, if gated). Connected to this clock (50 MHz) are two synchron...
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14 years ago> Did you try to stop the affected system parts, including the PLL with an asynchronous reset?
I replaced the clock gating by the reset (global_reset_n of DDR2 IP) as you indicated. On the board I'm currently working on, the error does not show up anymore. I even may gate the clock subsequently to the reset without any harm. However: I still observe significant power supply dip on VCCL(1.1V) and VCCPD (2.5V) when activating the reset (without clock gating), and I assume the POR did just not trigger (but may do so on another device...). Maybe I have some illegal bank voltage combination (did check that, but found no offending conditions so far)? ================================================= This is how my topology looks like (EP3SL50780): P28, CLK1p, Bank 1C, 3.3V : 50 MHz clock input to general PLL AH15, CLK5n, Bank 3C, 1.8V : Direct feed (here was the gate) from P28 A14, CLK13n, Bank 7C, 1.8V : Direct feed (here was the gate) from P28 Memory interface AB: AG15, CLK5p, Bank 3C, 1.8V : 50 MHz DDR PLL clock input (fed from AH15) Memory interface uses banks: 3A, 3C, 4A Memory interface CD: B14, CLK13p, Bank 7C, 1.8V : 50 MHz DDR PLL clock input (fed from A14) Memory interface uses banks: 7A, 7C, 8A PLL outputs of both memory interface are merged as indicated by AN462, most of the design is clocked with the merged phy_clk (200 MHz, fanout 17679). This is the clock I intend to stop for sleep mode. My general power supply concept looks like this: 1V1_VCCL : All 24 VCLL 1V1_VCC : All 8 VCC 1V1_VCCD1 : VCCD_PLL_B1 1V1_VCCD2 : VCCD_PLL_L2 1V1_VCCD3 : VCCD_PLL_R2 1V1_VCCD4 : VCCD_PLL_T1 1V8 . VCCIO1A/2A/3A/3C/4A/4C/5A/6A/7A/7C/8A/ 2V5 : VCC_CLKIN3C/4C/7C/8C VCCBAT VCCPD1A/2A/3A/3C/4A/4C/5A/5C/6A/6C/7A/7C/8A VCCIO5C/6C 2V5_VCCPT : All 8 VCCPT 2V5_A : VCCA_PLL_B1/L2/R2/T1 3V3 : All 2 VCCPGM VCCPD1C/2C/8C VCCIO8C