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Altera_Forum
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15 years agoOsc. input to Cyclone
Hi there, Currently taking a design from development board to a custom PCB. When designing the schedule for the PCB I got stuck on how to connect my 50 MHz oscillator to the Cyclone IV device. It ...
Altera_Forum
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15 years agoNo you only need to connect it to one input, fortunately! It will be either fed to a pll or routed as a global clock and can be used everywhere inside the fpga. Each clock input pin can be connected to a different clock.
Before you finish the PCB (or even better, before you start routing it) it can be a good idea to make a basic FPGA project with all your pins correctly assigned and run a I/O check from the Quartus pin assignment editor. Just to check you got all the pins right.