ZCU216

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RF Clocking

The following figure shows a high-level block diagram for the clocking network:

The CLK104 board is a seperate module board providing the RF Clocks to the RFSoC ADC/DAC tiles. The PLLs on this board are the:

• LMK04828b

• LMX2594

Only two of the ADC/DAC tiles recieve a clock. The other two are not connected. One of the connections to the ADC is from the LMK chip and the other tile recieves its clock from the LMX chip.

In this topology this board relies on the Gen 3 clock forwarding capabilites of the RFSoC to distribute the sample clock to all ADC tiles (PG269 Ch.4, Clocking). The rfdc yellow block checks the source of ADC tile clock using the RFSoC platform .yaml file and uses that information to forward the source clock to the other tiles. The platform configuration file for the ZCU216 is set to receive its sample clock from the LMK (source tile 2), to update the platform to use the LMX as the source instead set adc_clk_src to 1 for all four tiles.