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vendor.quicklogic: enable SoC clock configuration #543

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Related PR: amaranth-lang/amaranth-boards#117
Signed-off-by: Jan Kowalewski jkowalewski@antmicro.com

Signed-off-by: Jan Kowalewski <jkowalewski@antmicro.com>
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The code looks basically reasonable. However, I don't understand the meaning of --osc-freq and --fpga-clk-divider being provided at the same time. Normally, I would expect an on-chip oscillator, such as a ring oscillator, to have a fixed frequency, and the system clock frequency could be configured by specifying a divisor explicitly, or providing a frequency and letting the tools come up with the closest matching divisor.

Could you explain the relevant part of the clock tree to me, or refer me to a section of the EOS S3 TRM that does?

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Here is the TRM link related to clocks: https://www.quicklogic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/QL-S3-Technical-Reference-Manual.pdf#page=88
Table on page 90 (link) provides information about maximum frequencies for FPGA domain.

Currently I can see that the bitstream_to_openocd tool assumes that the divider is always on, so it is not possible for now to achieve frequencies beyond 40MHz (which is max 80MHz divided by minimum divisor: 2). I think it would be nice to have an option to configure higher frequency in future like maximum 72MHz for FPGA domain, to do so we'll need --osc-freq . We can set default osc_freq and osc_div in platform definition thus setting them would be optional in board definition.

or providing a frequency and letting the tools come up with the closest matching divisor.

I agree this is something that is missing in bitstream_to_openocd tool. For now it is a very manual approach if user wants to configure other frequency for FPGA domain than the default one.

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Thanks. I've reviewed the EOS S3 clocking and the approach you picked is perfectly fine.

@whitequark whitequark merged commit adef3b2 into amaranth-lang:master Nov 13, 2020
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