V-Series Transceiver PHY IP Core User Guide

ID 683171
Date 7/26/2022
Public
Document Table of Contents

8.11. Interlaken Optional Clocks for Deskew

This section describes the optional clocks that you can create to reduce clock skew.
Table 106.  Deskew Clocks
Signal Name Direction Description
tx_coreclkin Input When enabled tx_coreclkin is available as input port which drives the write side of TX FIFO. Altera recommends using this clock to reduce clock skew. The minimum frequency is data rate/67. Using a lower frequency will underflow the TX FIFO causing the Frame Generators to go into a unrecoverable out of alignment state and insert Skip Words into the lane. If the Interlaken TX FIFO underflows, the alignment state machine tries to recover continuously. When disabled, tx_clkout drives the write side the TX FIFO. tx_coreclkin must be used when the number of lanes is greater than 1.
rx_coreclkin Input When enabled, rx_coreclkin is available as input port which drives the read side of RX FIFO. Altera recommends using this clock to reduce clock skew. You should use a minimum frequency of lane data rate/ 67 to drive rx_coreclkin. Using a lower frequency overflows the RX FIFO corrupting the received data.When disabled, rx_user_clkout, which is the master rx_clkout for all the bonded receiver lanes, is internally routed to drive the read side the RX FIFO.