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Minimum IO clock input

Altera_Forum
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My design requires a clock input of 1MHz that can be locked with a pll. Currently i have a cyclone II fpga but in the pll megafunction i cant input a frequncy of anything lower than 50MHz or divide enough to get to 1MHz. I was wondering if what I want to do is possible? If so what device would be able to preform this?

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Altera_Forum
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IIRC, no Altera PLL will accept a clock as low a 1 MHz. 

 

As for dividers, ome devices' PLLs have larger counters from others. Ie, remember that I had was unable to divide 100 MHz clock down to 1 MHz on a Cyclone II PPL but has no problems with a Cyclone III. 

 

What I did, for the Cyclone II case, was to divide the 100 MHz clock down to 10 MHz and then divide the 10 MHz clock to 1 MHz using a clock divider implemented in logic.
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Altera_Forum
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the minimum PLL input frequency for CII should be 10 MHz, see page 66: 

 

http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/cyc2/cyc2_cii51005.pdf
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