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2.2.2. Transmitter Clocking
As shown in the following figure, the clock divider provides the serial clock to the serializer, and the parallel clock to the serializer and TX PCS. When the byte serializer is not used, the parallel clock clocks all the blocks up to the read side of the TX phase compensation FIFO. For configurations with the byte serializer, the parallel clock is divided by a factor of two for the byte serializer and the read side of the TX phase compensation FIFO. The read side clock of the TX phase compensation FIFO is also forwarded to the FPGA fabric to interface the FPGA fabric with the transceiver.
PCS Block | Side | Clock Source |
---|---|---|
TX Phase Compensation FIFO | Write | FPGA fabric write clock, driven either by tx_clkout or tx_coreclkin |
Read | Parallel clock (divided). Clock forwarded to FPGA fabric as tx_clkout | |
Byte Serializer | Write | Parallel clock (divided) either by factor of 1 (not enabled), or factor of 2 (enabled) |
Read | Parallel clock | |
8B/10B Encoder | — | Parallel clock |
TX Bit Slip | — | Parallel clock |