Working with PLLs (Phase Locked Loops)

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For installing and using this collection in Icestudio follow these steps:

• Download the collection: stable or development
• Install the collection: Tools > Collections > Add
• Select the collection: Select > Collection

In the collection manager the icePLL-main menu should now be visible. Here you can find PLL blocks for the ice40 and ECP5 chips. For the ice40 LP/HX the PLL's are located at I/O bank 2, see the ice40 datasheet under "Architecture Overview. For other chipset checkout their datasheet's, fx via octopart. The PLL's can use a reference clk directly, if the clk is connected to an GBIN on I/O bank 2, in the case of the ice40 LP/HX series. Otherwise the reference clk can be used in-directly. This results in longer routing, leading to a potionel issue at higher freqencies although not yet confirmed.

If a clk is connected directly to the PLL's, then the pll40_pad should be used. If clk is not directly connected then pll40_core.

• TODO

• Carlos Venegas

• Obijuan