Hard Processor System Technical Reference Manual: Agilex™ 5 SoCs

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7.6.2. MPU/DSU and APS/CCU Clock Groups

The MPU clock group includes the A76 cores (core3_clk, core2_clk), A55 cores (core1_clk, core0_clk), and DSU clocks (SCLK, PCLK, PERIPHCLK). There is no fixed frequency relationship among these cores; you can select any frequency that can be generated by the PLLs and ping-pong counters that are implemented. Since the DSU handles clock domain crossing, there is no required synchronous relationship among the clocks in this group.

Each A76 core has a ping-pong counter so that the performance of each core can be independently configured based on the needs of the application. The two A55 cores share a common ping-pong counter but have independent clock gates, allowing you to disable clocks if an A55 core is not used in your application. The DSU and APS clocks are generated from a single ping-pong counter since they share a common base frequency.

The following figure shows the block diagram for the MPU and APS clock trees.

Figure 257. MPU and APS Clock Trees

The following table shows the registers used to program the clocks.

Table 291.  Programming Clock Registers
Clock Name *.src *.cnt (n+1 divider) *.div (2^n divider) Clock Gate (enable)
core3_clk

ctlgrp.core23ctr.src

= 0 (Main_PLL_C0)

= 1 (Peri_PLL)

ctlgrp.core3ctr.cnt --- mainpllgrp.en.core3en
core2_clk ctlgrp.core2ctr.cnt --- mainpllgrp.en.core2en
core1_clk

ctlgrp.core01ctr.src

= 0 (Main_PLL_C1)

= 1 (Peri_PLL_C0)

ctlgrp.core01ctr.cnt --- mainpllgrp.en.core1en
core0_clk mainpllgrp.en.core0en
mpu_free_clk

ctlgrp.dsuctr.src

= 0 (Main_PLL_C2)

= 1 (Peri_PLL_C0)

ctlgrp.dsuctr.cnt --- ---
mpu_clk --- ---
mpu_ccu_clk mainpllgrp.nocdiv.ccudiv ---
mpu_periph_clk mainpllgrp.nocdiv.mpuperiphdiv ---