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Board Hardware
Re: Klondike - 16 chip ASIC Open Source Board - Preliminary
by
BkkCoins
on 05/07/2013, 04:32:46 UTC
In Xilinx FPGAs the PLLs are very picky about the multiplier.  eg the multiplied clock must be between  800MHz and 1600MHz.  With a 100 MHz input you would never use a multiplier of 2 and a divider of 1 to get 200MHz, you would use a multiplier of 10 and a divider of 5 to put the multiplied clock into the valid range.  It might be worth sweeping the mutliplier range to see if certain values perform better.
After I get a heat sink mounted I'll do some testing like that.