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Connecting DDR3 on ArriaII GX Development Kit

Altera_Forum
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Hello, 

My design has an DDR3-Interface. Pin Assignment I copied from Referencedesign "a2gx125_qsys_pcie_gen1x4_11_0_1". 

Fitter Works successfully, but I get a Critical Warning. 

Can anyone help? 

Thank you in advance 

 

Critical Warning (185021):  

Detected external clock signal directly connected to the RAM "q_sys: 

u0|q_sys_cpu:cpu|q_sys_cpu_nios2_oci: 

the_q_sys_cpu_nios2_oci|q_sys_cpu_nios2_ocimem: 

the_q_sys_cpu_nios2_ocimem|q_sys_cpu_ociram_lpm_dram_bdp_component_module: 

q_sys_cpu_ociram_lpm_dram_bdp_component|altsyncram: 

the_altsyncram|altsyncram_14e2:auto_generated|q_a[0]" CLK0 port.  

This connection may cause unexpected memory behavior if your external clock signal violates  

the minimum pulse width specifications (clock high time and clock low time).
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Altera_Forum
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Using Quartus II 12.0. Same error with Stratix IV / DDR2 Controller 

 

Project is from terasic QSYS 11.0 DDR2 Example. I only added a PCIe IP Core. 

The DDR2 Controller has an 50 MHz(OSC_50_Bank3) input clock, no PLL. :( 

 

Found on: quartushelp[.]atlera[.]com 

 

ACTION: Use the on-chip phase-locked loop (PLL) as the input clock source to the memory block. 

 

Strange. The example from terasic (DE4_DDR2_UniPHY) does not use a PLL as an input clock and it works without critical errors. why? 

 

Edit: 

Still doesn't work with PLL. :confused:
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