System Clocks
The controller receives the following system clocks from the PMC clock controller:
- SDx_REF_CLK reference clock for the DIV_CLK module and controller
- SD_DLL_REF_CLK reference clock for SD DLL module
- PMC_IRO_CLK for the AXI DMA and programming interfaces
Interconnect Interface Clocks
There are two AXI interfaces and they are both clocked by PMC_IRO_CLK.
- AXI 32-bit interface for data and control register programming
- AXI 32-bit interface for DMA reads and writes
Controller Clock
The controller logic is always clocked by the DIV_CLK output from 10-bit divider clocked by the SDx_REF_CLK reference clock signal.
I/O Interface Clock
The controller supports a wide range of I/O clock frequencies including 400 kHz discovery and 25, 50, 100, and 200 MHz frequencies (some with double data rate).
The overall clock architecture is shown in the Clock Block Diagram. The controller always drives the I/O interface clock, SDx_CLK from one of two possible sources: DIV_CLK from the clock divider and three clocks from the DLL module. The clock source depends on the desired I/O clock frequency:
- 25 MHz or less uses simple divider on ref clock. See 25 MHz I/O Clock Range.
- > 25 MHz requires the DLL module. See High-speed I/O Clocking.
The I/O interface clocking is described in the I/O Clock Functionality section.