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14 years ago

Sharing PLL - using SOPC Builder

Hello folks, I have instantiated 3 DDR3 Memory controllers into the Nios II CPU and each memory controller uses its own PLL (3 PLL's used). As all the memory controllers operate on the same clo...
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14 years ago

Hey,

Thanks for the link. I think I already had a looked into this example sometime back. Anyway, I tried it again - Downloaded the project, Restored it and Compiled.

result: "The compilation report says 3 PLL's and 1 DLL used!"

So, I guess only the DLL's were shared. What about the PLL's? I want to know whether there is any possibility of sharing the PLL's so that I use just 1 PLL for 3 DDR3 Memory Controllers w.r.t this example.