DCM in Xilinx

[charles]

I am doing a small experiment with DCM. I used the coregen to
configure it to use a 100Mhz input clock, and output CLK0 and LOCKED.
RST is also tied to a pushbutton RESET. Feedback 1x internal is
configured, and so does the duty cycle correction. Then I instantiate
the module in schematic, and tie all the port to inport and outport
apprepriately without any IBUF,OBUF or BUFG primitives. I noticed a
extra pin coming out of the DCM: CLKIN_IBUFG_OUT. I implemented the
design and downloaded to a xc2vp4 FPGA prototype board. But somehow I
can not get CLK0 to come out. CLKIN_IBUFG_OUT is coming out fine.
LOCKED is still low. So it is not locking, and that is why CLKO is
not coming out. But why? Such a simple design. Someone help.

Charles

 

[charles]

Never mind. It's a silly mistake on my part. I had RST tied to RST pin on
the chip. It should be tied to GND. Deh.....
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[john]

Hi,
I had the same problem. I think that the clk0 line is routed through a
dedicated clock routing line(global) and cannot be brought out. The reason
for this I am not sure of yet. But, there isa work around. U could
instantiate the FDDRE ( IOB Double data rate registers) primitive and set
the inputs to the 2 ff(s) in such a way that the output mimic the clock
exactly.
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I am doing a small experiment with DCM. I used the coregen to
configure it to use a 100Mhz input clock, and output CLK0 and LOCKED.
RST is also tied to a pushbutton RESET. Feedback 1x internal is
configured, and so does the duty cycle correction. Then I instantiate
the module in schematic, and tie all the port to inport and outport
apprepriately without any IBUF,OBUF or BUFG primitives. I noticed a
extra pin coming out of the DCM: CLKIN_IBUFG_OUT. I implemented the
design and downloaded to a xc2vp4 FPGA prototype board. But somehow I
can not get CLK0 to come out. CLKIN_IBUFG_OUT is coming out fine.
LOCKED is still low. So it is not locking, and that is why CLKO is
not coming out. But why? Such a simple design. Someone help.

Charles