DisplayPort Intel® FPGA IP Design Example User Guide: Agilex™ 5 FPGAs

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Date 12/20/2024
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2.2. Clocking Scheme

The clocking scheme illustrates the clock domains in the DisplayPort Intel® FPGA IP design example.

Figure 7.  Agilex™ 5 DisplayPort Transceiver Clocking Scheme
Table 7.  Clocking Scheme Signals
Clock in diagram Description
SysPLL refclk

The GTS System PLL can reference any clock frequency that the System PLL can divide to produce the desired output frequency.

In this design example, system_pll_clk_link and rx/tx refclk_link share the same 150 MHz refclk.

It must be a free running clock which is connected from a dedicated transceiver reference clock pin to the input clock port of System PLL Clocks IP, before connecting the corresponding output port to DisplayPort PHY Top.

Transceiver Refclk The GTS PMA reference clocks must come from a free-running 150 MHz refclk pin. The PMA generates all supported DisplayPort line rates from this clock. This clock pin may be shared with the SystemPLL when enabled.
system_pll_clk_link

The minimum System PLL output frequency to support all DisplayPort rates is 320 MHz.

This design example uses a 700 MHz (highest) output frequency so that SysPLL refclk can be shared with rx/tx refclk_link, which is 150 MHz.

rx_cdr_refclk_link / tx_pll_refclk_link RX CDR and TX PLL Link refclk which is fixed to 150 MHz to support all DisplayPort data rates.
rx_ls_clkout / tx_ls_clkout

DisplayPort Link Speed Clock to clock DisplayPort IP core. The frequency is equivalent to Data Rate divided by parallel data width.

Example:

Frequency = data rate / data width

For HBR3:

= 8.1G (HBR3) / 40 bits

= 202.5 MHz

For UHBR10:

= 10G (UHBR10) / 64 bits

= 312.5 MHz