Symmetric Cryptographic Intel FPGA Hard IP User Guide

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Date 10/02/2023
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8.2.1. Clock and Reset

This block is responsible for generating the required clocks and resets for VSIP and Crypto.

Figure 29. VSIP Clocking Block

VSIP uses the board clock (100MHz) for driving the VSIP control and status register (CSR) interface and the Symmetric Cryptographic Intel FPGA Hard IP AXI-Lite Interface. Apart from the board clock, the VSIP also generates two more clocks using IOPLLs for the AXI Streaming (AXI-ST) Interface and Symmetric Cryptographic Intel FPGA Hard IP core. The two IOPLLs generating clocks are as follows:

  • IOPLL0: AXI-ST clock / VSIP Clock
  • IOPLL1: Crypto Core clock

Both IOPLL0 and IOPLL1 use the board clock as the reference clock. The VSIP clock is the same as the AXI-ST clock. By default, the AXI-ST clock and the Symmetric Cryptographic Intel FPGA Hard IP Core clock run at 400 MHz.