Oops, sorry, I think I've just confused myself and mis-informed you in the 
process. Having checked the schematics, it seems...

X1 drives MGT_REFCLK_Q1_1 and MGT_REFCLK_Q1_3 (ie ports 1 and 3) through buffer 
U8, both going in to FPGA.
X4 drives MGT_REFCLK_Q2_0 and MGT_REFCLK_Q2_2 (ie ports 0 and 2) through buffer 
U26, both going in to FPGA.

I can only guess that this was done to make both clocks are available to both 
MGTs, allowing full flexibility from software.

However, in the software, only two reference clocks, xaui0_ref_clk and 
xaui2_ref_clk seem to be used. This maps to mgt_clk_b and mgt_clk_t, 
respectively. xaui0_ref_clk (mgt_clk_b) is used for ports 0 and 1 and 
xaui2_ref_clk (mgt_clk_t) for ports 2 and 3.  You can check this in the 
system.mhs and xaui_infrastructure pcore.  From the UCF, the top clock maps to 
C8/D8 (MGT_REFCLK_Q1_1) and the bottom clock to Y3/Y4 (MGT_REFCLK_Q1_3).  So it 
looks like XTAL X1 is used for both. I'm not sure if this was the original 
design idea. Looking at this, we should be able to leave out X4 and U26 
completely and still have a fully functioning board! It'd be nice to have 
someone double-check my reasoning here.

I can confirm that your ordering of the ports on the back is correct according 
to the yellow block's port numbering.

Jason


On 10 Apr 2012, at 11:30, Jason Manley wrote:

> Hi Matt
> 
> I have, for ROACH-1:
> 
> X1:
> CX-0 maps to MGT bottom 0
> CX-1 maps to MGT bottom 1
> 
> X4:
> CX-2 maps to MGT top 0
> CX-3 maps to MGT top 1
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> 
> On 07 Apr 2012, at 03:46, Matt Dexter wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've confused myself when I try to map CX4 port to reference
>> crystal - I hope one of you can help me unconfuse me.
>> 
>> When viewing the rear of the Roach1 board, with components on top,
>> the design tools call out, I think, the CX4 ports as:
>> upper left=2      upper right=1
>> lower left=3      lower right=0
>> 
>> What is the mapping of these ports to the two 156.25 MHz
>> reference crystals X1 and X4 as shown on pages 8 and 9 of
>> the schematics ?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Matt Dexter
>> 
>> 
> 


Jason Manley
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