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18 years agoYou can have LVDS inputs on the dedicated clock pins, but they don't have the SERDES circuitry that the side banks have.
There are a total of 4 dedicated input clock pin pairs on top banks and a total of 4 dedicated clock pin pairs on the bottom banks. The top and bottom banks can't support LVDS toggle rates as high as what the side I/O banks can support, and they don’t have differential termination resistors. They are useful for getting differential clocks to the enhanced PLLs.