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Altera_Forum
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15 years agoPLLs could be used to reduce the influence of noise ?
Hi, I remembered that i read from somewhere that 2 PLLs can be used to reduce the influence of noise during data transfer? or during FIFO rate matching? when having 2 external clock source. ...
Altera_Forum
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15 years agoIf your clock has noise on it, a PLL can filter it out. Remember that it's basically an oscillator that is being tuned to match its edges(through a feedback path) with your incoming edges. So if there is noise on your clock tree and there is no PLL, it might create a spurious edge in the device which could be disastrous, while a PLL might see that edge and make a slow modification to try and track it(depending on bandwidth settings) but it would basically filter it out. I have seen designs where that worked(although we still suggested going back and cleaning up the external clock).