[hpsdr] C122_CLK Question On Penny(Lane)

John Westmoreland john at westmorelandengineering.com
Wed Mar 21 18:46:24 PDT 2012


Phil,

OK  - Thanks.

73's,
John

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Phil Harman <phil at pharman.org> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> The C122_clk on Penny(lane) is 122.88MHz. V1.6 is the latest version.
>
> I'll need to check the ADC code and get back to you.
>
> 73 Phil....
>
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> > Upon examination of the RTL in Quartus-II for C122_CLK for Penny(Lane) -
> I
> > don't explicitly see the method in which the 122.88 MHz clk is divided by
> > 10 so that the system clk is
> > 12.288 MHz - can someone point out where this divide by 10 is?  Looking
> at
> > the RTL shows the fan-out to be 212 and it is being fed from the pin
> > directly into the clks for the internal logic on PennyLane.
> > Note I am looking at version 1.6 of the PnennyLane verilog.
> >
> > So, unless that clk is being divided prior to the pin on PennyLane -
> > C122_CLK is running at 122.288 MHz (125 MHz?) internal to the FPGA.  Is
> > the
> > divide by 10 external to the FPGA?
> >
> > Another question if it is OK - I see that the AIN1, AIN2, and AIN5 pins
> on
> > the ADC are going through 2 D FF's - and the code says to use nCS to
> latch
> > that data - is it always latched on every read or do you have to
> > explicitly
> > toggle the nCS?  I see the ADC state machine seems to to this - but just
> > wanted to ask what the thinking was on the ADC state machine is that was
> > OK.
> >
> > 73's,
> > John
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