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Altera_Forum
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10 years ago

not able to see the output on the oscilloscope

Hello everyone, I have programmed my FPGA De0 nano board to generate short pulse of 1000 ps and the time between the next pulse is 10 us. I want to see this pulse on digital oscilloscope. I hav...
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10 years ago

You're not going to be able to generate the 1GHz clock needed for a 1ns pulse on a DE0-Nano. The max output frequency of the PLL is 472.5MHz. Your oscilloscope's not going to see something that isn't there.

Cheers,

Alex