Altera ALTDLL User Manual

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Chapter 4: Functional Description

ALTDQ_DQS Megafunction

ALTDLL and ALTDQ_DQS Megafunctions User Guide

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The DQ input path consists of the following blocks:

Table 4–4. DQ Input Path

Block

Name

Description

_INPUT_FF

DQ Input register
blocks

Samples the DQ signal during a read operation. These blocks are
clocked by the core or by a clock pin.

The

_INPUT_FF

block represents a group of flip-flops registers

in the DQ input path.

The

_DDIO_IN

represents a group of double data rate input

registers in the DQ input path.

_DDIO_IN

_IPA_LOW

and

_IPA_HIGH

Input Phase
Alignment (IPA)
Block

Represents the circuitry required to phase shift the input signal. This is
primarily used to match the arrival delay of the DQS (triggered by the
fly-by clock on a DDR3-DIMM) to the latest arrival delay of a DQS from
the DIMM. The input phase alignment block levels or aligns the DQ
group signals in the core using different phase shifts.

For more information about input phase alignment, refer to the Leveling
Circuitry section in the External Memory Interface chapter of the
respective device handbooks.

_HALF_RATE_INPUT

Half-rate input
registers block

Represents the circuitry required to transfer the input signal from a
full-rate clock to a half-rate clock.

Note that this block is only available in Stratix III and Stratix IV devices.

INPUT_DELAY_CHAIN

Input Delay Chain For more information about the input delay chain, refer to

Table 4–2 on

page 4–4

DQS_CONFIG

DQS
Configuration
Block

For more information about the

DQS_CONFIG