Clock Domains

Zynq UltraScale+ Device Technical Reference Manual (UG1085)

Document ID
UG1085
Release Date
2023-12-21
Revision
2.4 English

The gigabit Ethernet controller has the following clocks.

AXI clock: AXI clock used by DMA controller.

APB clock: APB clock used by MAC registers.

TSU clock: Alternate clock source for the time stamp unit (TSU).

TX clock (tx_clk): MAC transmit clock used by MAC transmit unit in MII/RGMII/GMII/SGMII, 1000BASE-SX, or 1000BASE-LX mode.

RX clock (rx_clk): MAC receive clock used by MAC receive synchronization in MII/RGMII/GMII/SGMII, 1000BASE-SX, or 1000BASE-LX mode.

Invert TX clock: Inverted TX clock used in loopback mode.

PCS transmit clock: In all modes except SGMII, 1000BASE-SX, and 1000BASE-LX, this clock can be sourced directly from tx_clk. In SGMII, 1000BASE-SX, or 1000BASE-LX applications, this clock is sourced from the serializer/deserializer and fixed at 125 MHz because the GEM PCS only operates at 1000 Mb/s.

RBC0/RBC1 clock: Used in the PCS receive channel.

The following restrictions apply when generating a reference clock for GEM.

Do not use fractional divisors in the PLL to generating the 125 MHz clock for the GEM module.

Any frequency variation should be within 100 PPM.

Note:   GEM RX clock is provided either from the PHY or internally based on GEM_RX_SRC_SEL. In any configuration, user needs to ensure that GEM RX clock is available. GEM (TX and RX) should not be enabled if RX clock is not available. Also if GEM RX is enabled when GEM RX clock is not available, it may lead to erroneous behavior on the interconnect and lock up.