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10 years agoReset for PLL
I am working on a project involving Arria V FPGA. I need to have a PLL for generating clocks for my internal FPGA logic. I am confused about the reset signal of PLL. I have no external H/W reset...
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8 years agoThere must be some official response from Intel about this somewhere. I can only imagine it's a very common question. Here are two solutions I have been using and found to work:
- Connecting the reset port to an external pin tied to ground on the PCB - Using the PLL reference clock to generate a registered reset signal (e.g., using a counter or shift register) The second solution could be expanded to reassert reset when lock is lost, however I thought this was precisely what the auto-reset setting was for, and hence I see no reason why Quartus does not allow you to tie reset to zero internally as in older families.