Gigabit Transceiver Output Pins in 7 Series Devices - 2023.1 English

UltraFast Design Methodology Guide for FPGAs and SoCs (UG949)

Document ID
UG949
Release Date
2023-06-07
Version
2023.1 English

You can use a gigabit transceiver output pin (e.g., a recovered clock) as the primary clock root as shown in the following figure.

Figure 1. create_clock on a Primitive Pin

Constraint example:

create_clock -name txclk -period 6.667 [get_pins gt0/TXOUTCLK]
Note: For designs that target AMD UltraScale™ and AMD UltraScale+™ devices, AMD does not recommend defining a primary clock on the output of GTs, because GT clocks are automatically derived when the REFCLK input clocks are defined.