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Re: XGMII Clock Duty Cycle




The current specification will only guarantee that the duty cycle will be no
worse than 30%/70%. If this is insufficient, a separate duty cycle
specification will be necessary.

Thanks,
Vinu


Boaz Shahar wrote:

> Hi,
> In implementations working with TXCLK as the digital portion clock, you
> sample XGMII column in rising edge, then you sample the next XGMII column
> with falling edge, and then sample again a pair of column with rising edge
> for the internal logic. So, in order to enable such implementations, the
> distance from rising edge to falling edge of the clock is needed.
> Boaz
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vinu Arumugham [mailto:vinu@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 8:57 PM
> > To: James Colin
> > Cc: stds-802-3-hssg@xxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: XGMII Clock Duty Cycle
> >
> >
> >
> > James,
> >
> > The driver tsetup and thold requirements already place a limit on the
> > duty cycle variation of the DDR clock output.
> >
> > I think a separate duty cycle specification will be redundant and may
> > reduce flexibility in the transmitter output design.
> >
> > Do you see a need for a separate duty cycle specification?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vinu
> >
> >
> > James Colin wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I searched carefully for XGMII Clock duty cycle in
> > > Clause 46 of D2.1, Nevertheless, I could not find
> > > anything. Can anyone help with this? What is the duty
> > > cycle of the XGMII DDR Clock?
> > > Thanks
> > > James.
> > >
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