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17 years ago

Using a PLL to synchronize two clocks

Hello, I have a 120 MHz external clock entering the FPGA (Stratix II). Part of the interface in the FPGA must work at the 120 MHz, but most of it (including a Nios CPU) works at 60 MHz. The 60 ...
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17 years ago

Yes, create a PLL with two outputs of 120Mhz and 60MHz. Everything will be taken care of for you. No reason to do Zero Delay Buffer either, and you can leave it in Normal mode.