PHY Lite for Parallel Interfaces Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

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Date 12/13/2021
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2.2.3.1. Clocks

The PHY Lite for Parallel Interfaces IP uses a reference clock that is sourced from a dedicated clock pin to the PLL inside the IP. This PLL provides four clock domains for the output and input paths.

Table 3.   PHY Lite for Parallel Interfaces IP Clock Domains
Clock Domain Description
Core clock This clock is generated internally by the IP and it is used for all transfers between the FPGA core fabric and I/O banks. The clock phase alignment circuitry ensures that this clock is kept in phase with the PHY clock for core-to-periphery and periphery-to-core transfers.
PHY clock This clock is used internally by the IP for PHY circuitry running at the same frequency as the core clock.
VCO clock This clock is generated internally by the PLL. It is used by both the input and output paths to generate PVT compensated delays in the interpolator.
Interface clock This is the clock frequency of the external device connected to the FPGA I/Os.
Table 4.   PHY Lite for Parallel Interfaces Intel® Agilex™ FPGA IP Supported Interface Frequency
Core Clock Rate Speed Grade –1 (MHz) Speed Grade –2 (MHz) Speed Grade –3 (MHz)
Min Max Min Max Min Max
Quarter 100 1,200 100 933 100 933
Note: The PHY Lite for Parallel Interfaces Intel® Agilex™ FPGA IP supports only quarter core clock rate.