HELP on PLL and DCM

Hi,

anyone can tell me the differences between PLL and DCM in Virtex5 in terms of pros and cons? thank you.

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chestnut
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STW. Google this:-

pll dcm site:xilinx.com

HTH., Syms.

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Symon

chestnut,

PLL is a well known, and well understood building block: filters jitter (jitter out is the intrinsic jitter of the VCO in the PLL), able to synthesize a Fout which is some M and some D, Fout=M/D * Fin.

PLL's continue to provide an output when they have no input.

Knowing that a PLL is locked is often difficult, as the PLL is an analog circuit.

The DCM is a Xilinx invention, which uses matched delay lines to provide precise phase shift, zero clock insertion delay, multiple precise phase outputs (90, 180, 270 degree), and some degree of M/D synthesis.

The block is all digital and synchronous, so completely deterministic behavior. Jitter is not filtered, as the output is just a delayed copy of the input (jitter is only added). Locked is a state of a state machine.

DCM operates over a much wider range of Fin, Fout than a PLL due to architecture.

There are some tasks where either may be used.

There are some tasks where one has advantages.

There are very few tasks where one can not be used at all.

Austin

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austin

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