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17 years ago

Bug in Stratix III altlvds?

Hi everybody,

I am trying to set up a lvds receiver with external PLL in a Stratix III device using the megawizard and altlvds function.

Configuring altlvds as receiver + external PLL + DPA works fine, but if a make a analysis and syntheses in Quartus 8.0 SP1, i get the following error:

"Error: The port rx_syncclock (which is the slow clock from PLL running at data rate/DESERIALIZATION_FACTOR) must be connected to use the rx_dpa_locked port when the USE_EXTERNAL_PLL parameter is set to ON"

I read several manuals and figured out, that the rx_syncclock is mandatory if external PLL with DPA is used. But the megawizard is not instantiaing this port!

If I add this port manually, the error message disappears.

Could anyone please confirm the megawizard misbehaviour?

thanks in advance,

lestard

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    Thank you for your reply.

    I installed the new version and the bug seems to be removed.
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    The behaviour has been apparently updated in Quartus V8.1.

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    Running 8.1 and regenerating the macro with Megawizard, fixed the problem for me too.

    Many Thanks.