Chapter 5: Clock Networks and PLLs in Arria II Devices
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Clock Networks in Arria II Devices
December 2010
Altera Corporation
Arria II Device Handbook Volume 1: Device Interfaces and Integration
Global Clock Networks
Arria II devices provide up to 16 GCLKs that can drive throughout the device, serving
as low-skew clock sources for functional blocks such as adaptive logic modules
(ALMs), digital signal processing (DSP) blocks, embedded memory blocks, and PLLs.
Arria II I/O elements (IOEs) and internal logic can drive GCLKs to create internally
generated GCLKs and other high fan-out control signals; for example, synchronous or
asynchronous clears and clock enables.
and
show CLK pins and
PLLs that can drive GCLK networks in Arria II devices.
Figure 5–1. GCLK Networks in Arria II GX Devices
(1)
PLL_5
and
PLL_6
are only available in EP2AGX95, EP2AGX125, EP2AGX190, and EP2AGX260 devices.
(2) Because there are no dedicated clock pins on the left side of an Arria II GX device,
GCLK[0..3]
are not driven by any clock pins.
GCLK[0..3] (
2
)
GCLK[4..7]
CLK[4..7]
GCLK[8..11]
CLK[8..11]
CLK[12..15]
Center PLLs
Top Right PLL
Top Left PLL
Bottom Left PLL
Bottom Right PLL
GCLK[12..15]
PLL_1
PLL_2
(1)
(1)
PLL_3
PLL_5
PLL_6
PLL_4