Virtex 7 Devices - 3.5 English

Quad Serial Gigabit Media Independent LogiCORE Product Guide (PG029)

Document ID
PG029
Release Date
2023-11-02
Version
3.5 English

This Figure illustrates sharing clock resources across two instantiations of the core when using 7 series FPGA transceivers. Additional cores can be added by continuing to instantiate extra block level modules. One instance of the core is generated with the Include Shared Logic in Core option. This instance contains all the clocking logic that can be shared. The remaining instances can be generated using the Include Shared Logic in Example Design option. This method of using shared logic core is limited to a GT Quad.

To provide the FPGA logic clocks for all core instances, select a txoutclk port from any transceiver and place it onto global clock routing using BUFGs; it can be shared across all core instances and transceivers as illustrated.

Each transceiver and core pair instantiated has its own independent clock domains synchronous to rxoutclk . These are placed on BUFMR followed by regional clock routing using a BUFR, as illustrated in This Figure , and cannot normally be shared across multiple transceivers. The clocking logic for rxoutclk can only be shared if it is known that the transceiver and core pairs across QSGMII instances are synchronous.

Figure 5-5: Clock Management with Multiple Core Instances with Virtex 7 FPGA Transceivers

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