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fpll to fpll cascading with Arria10 transceivers

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Hi, 

 

I'm having trouble getting a working Arria10 transceiver configuration. Due to a kind of design flaw on my board I have a 240 MHz reference clock and I need a 160 MHz reference clock. I'm trying to use fPLL to fPLL cascading. 

The setup is currently like this: 

 

input 240 MHz -> cascading fPLL -> 160 MHz -> transceiver fPLL -> 2560 MHz serial transceiver clock 

 

The 160 MHz clock is also used for the CDR reference.  

 

I have an Avalon Memory Map to recalibrate the fPLLs (particularly the second one). However, when I talk to the first fPLL I always get back state 0x84 (from any subaddress). Does anyone have any experience with this kind of setup? 

 

I can provide more info and the project files if necessary. 

 

Advance thanks, 

Karol.
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