A Proof-of-Concept FPGA-Based Clock Signal Phase Alignment System

Abstract

Phase alignment of periodic events between multiple systems is required in multiple fields and applications. Most of the existing solutions focus on either low frequency and relatively low accuracy or high complexity, high accuracy and precision. In contrast, this work aimed to develop an intermediate solution, supporting high frequencies and relatively high accuracy and precision, with relatively low complexity. A hypothetical concept and mathematical model is presented with a hardware test implementation based entirely on FPGA resources. Deliberate resource selection and utilization enables a significant simplification of calculations and, as a result, a reduction in logic resource utilization. The proposed concept was implemented and verified using the AMD/Xilinx Artix 7 35T FPGA platform.