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hcom
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4 years ago
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Fitter was unable to place an EMIF with a differential clock

I can see from this thread that a differential (LVDS) EMIF PLL reference clock is only supported in LVDS I/O banks (and not 3 V I/O banks) in Arria 10: https://community.intel.com/t5/Programmable-De...
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    hcom
    3 years ago

    @AdzimZM_Intel My understanding from the documentation is that disabling all the on-chip termination damages performance.

    Since it is so difficult to get clear and reliable information from Intel (and so much time has already been wasted in this pursuit), we decided to redesign our hardware to use a single-ended reference clock.