DCM,PLL和MMCM的区别

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The DCM is a Digital Clock Manager - at its heart it is a Delay Locked Loop. This has the ability to deskew a clock, generate different phases of the clock, dynamically change the phase of a clock, generate related (2x) clocks, do clock division, and even generate clocks with harmonic relationships to the incoming clock. It was the only clock management block that existed in older technologies (up to Spartan-3 and Virtex-4).

 

In Virtex-5 and Spartan-6 the Phase Locked Loop (PLL) was introduced along with the DCM. The PLL is an analog clock management cell that can do almost everything the DCM can do with the exception of dynamic and fine phase shifting. However, it can do more precise frequency generation and can generate multiple different frequencies at the same time. It also has significantly better jitter performance than the DCM - particularly when doing frequency synthesis with large multipliers/dividers.

 

In Virtex-6 the MMCM - Mixed Mode Clock Manager - was introduced. This is a PLL with some small part of a DCM tacked on to do fine phase shifting (that's why its mixed mode - the PLL is analog, but the phase shift is digital). Thus the MMCM can do everything the PLL can do plus the phase shifting from the DCM. The V6 only had MMCMs.

 

In the 7 series, they have a combination of PLLs and MMCMs. Mostly this is so that there are more cells available for use (the PLLs are smaller, so they take less room on the FPGA die). Furthermore the PLLs are tightly bound to the I/O structures that are used for DDRx-SDRAM memory controllers (via the MIG).