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Crossing clock domains

An FPGA design can use multiple clocks. Each clock forms a "clock domain" inside the FPGA, and care needs to be taken if a signal generated in a clock domain is needed in another clock domain.

Crossing in four parts

  1. Signal crossing
  2. Flag crossing
  3. Task crossing
  4. Data bus crossing
BTW, to learn about metastability (or why so much hard work is needed to cross clock domains), check the links below.

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