Clocking Architecture Overview

UltraScale Architecture Clocking Resources User Guide (UG572)

Document ID
UG572
Release Date
2023-02-01
Revision
1.10.2 English

The UltraScale architecture clocking resources manage complex and simple clocking requirements with dedicated global clocks distributed on clock routing and clock distribution resources. The clock management tiles (CMTs) provide clock frequency synthesis, deskew, and jitter filtering functionality. Non-clock resources such as local routing are not recommended when designing for clock functions.

The device is subdivided into columns and rows of segmented clock regions (CRs). CRs differ from previous families because they are arranged in tiles and do not span half the width of a device. A CR contains configurable logic blocks (CLBs), DSP slices, block RAMs, interconnect, and associated clocking. The height of a CR is 60 CLBs, 24 DSP slices, and 12 block RAMs with a horizontal clock spine (HCS) at its center. The HCS contains the horizontal routing and distribution resources, leaf clock buffers, clock network interconnections, and the root of the clock network. Clock buffers drive directly into the HCS. There are 52 I/Os per bank and four gigabit transceivers (GTs) that are pitch matched to the CRs. A core column contains configuration, System Monitor (SYSMON), and PCIe® blocks to complete a basic device.

Adjacent to the input/output block columns are the physical layer ( PHY ) blocks with CMTs, global clock buffers, global clock multiplexing structures, and I/O logic management functions. The clocking drives vertical and horizontal connectivity through separate clock routing and clock distribution resources via HCS into the CRs and I/Os.

Horizontal clock routing and distribution tracks drive horizontally into the CRs. Vertical routing and distribution tracks drive vertically adjacent CRs. The tracks are segmentable at the CR boundaries in both the horizontal and vertical directions. This allows for the creation of device-wide global clocks or local clocks of variable size.

The distribution tracks drive the clocking of synchronous elements across the device. Distribution tracks are driven by routing tracks or directly by the clocking structures in the PHY .

I/Os are directly driven from the PHY clocking and/or an adjacent PHY via routing tracks.

A CMT contains one mixed-mode clock manager (MMCM) and two phase-locked loops (PLLs).