The quality of the reference clock supplied to the RXPLL or TXPLL in the Virtex-6 GTX Transceiver can greatly impact the performance of the transmit jitter and receive jitter tolerance. Jitter or phase noise from the reference clockplays an important roll indetermining this performance; phase noise being the preferred specification method as it allows the designer to incorporate thevarious frequency components that a time based jitter specification might overlook.
This Answer Record contains the reference clock phase noise limits that Xilinx recommends based on the PLL settings being used.
Ref ClkFrequency (MHz) | 10KHz | 100KHz | 1MHz | 10MHz | 20MHz | 30MHz | 40MHz |
100 | -126 | -128 | -130 | -135 | -136 | -140 | -144 |
125 | -121 | -132 | -131 | -136 | -138 | -141 | -144 |
156.25 | -119 | -130 | -130 | -135 | -136 | -140 | -143 |
250 | -113 | -126 | -131 | -134 | -135 | -135 | -146 |
312.5 | -110 | -125 | -132 | -135 | -135 | -135 | -135 |