Arria® V Device Handbook: Volume 2: Transceivers

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Date 5/29/2020
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1.1.4.3.2. CMU PLL

In Arria V devices, if you do not use the channel PLL as a CDR, you can independently configure every channel PLL as a CMU PLL for clocking the transceivers.

Note: CDR functionality for the receiver is not available when you configure the channel PLL as a CMU PLL—you can use the transceiver channel only as a transmitter.

The CMU PLL operates only in lock-to-reference (LTR) mode and supports the full range of data rates.

Figure 20. CMU PLL in Arria V Devices


Using the input reference clock, the CMU PLL synthesizes the serial clock with a frequency that is half of the data rate. The CMU PLL output serial clock feeds the clock divider that resides in the transmitter of the same transceiver channel. Depending on the channel location in a transceiver bank, the CMU PLL of channels 1 and 4 feeds the output clock to the x1 clock lines.

Note: Transmitter PLLs within the upper-half or lower-half of a transceiver bank must be connected to the same Reconfiguration Controller.