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16 years ago

Stratix II/III with no external oscillator

Hi I have a Stratix II GX and Stratix III dev board setup with no external oscillator, only connections for the FPGA are the JTAG and passive serial connectors. Does anyone have any exp...
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16 years ago

Why would you save about EUR 3,- on an external oscillator if you are using a Stratix III device (starting at EUR 350,- or so) or, even worse, a Stratix II GX where you need a very stable, good quality clock source to drive the GX blocks?