On Arria10 there are 6 transceivers in a single bank. If more than 6
transceivers are used these will end up in multiple banks.
The ATX PLL can directly connect to the transceivers in the same bank
through the 1x clock network. To connect to transceivers in another bank it
has to go through a master clock generation block (MCGB) and the xN clock
network.
Add support for instantiating the MCGB if more than 6 lanes are used. In
this case the first 6 transceivers will still have a direct connection to
the PLL while all other transceivers will be clocked by the MCGB.
Note that this requires that the first 6 transceivers are all in the same
bank.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Currently the individual IP core dependencies are tracked inside the
library Makefile for Xilinx IPs and the project Makefiles only reference
the IP cores.
For Altera on the other hand the individual dependencies are tracked inside
the project Makefile. This leads to a lot of duplicated lists and also
means that the project Makefiles need to be regenerated when one of the IP
cores changes their files.
Change the Altera projects to a similar scheme than the Xilinx projects.
The projects themselves only reference the library as a whole as their
dependency while the library Makefile references the individual source
dependencies.
Since on Altera there is no target that has to be generated create a dummy
target called ".timestamp_altera" who's only purpose is to have a timestamp
that is greater or equal to the timestamp of all of the IP core files. This
means the project Makefile can have a dependency on this file and make sure
that the project will be rebuild if any of the files in the library
changes.
This patch contains quite a bit of churn, but hopefully it reduces the
amount of churn in the future when modifying Altera IP cores.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Lars-Peter Clausen