Correct way to emit 'x' internal clock pulses on a physical pin?

[Anonymous]

I have a situation where I am trying to clock out an exact number of pulses from a design-wide clock to an I/O pin. (this is part of a hardware SWD block I'm designing.)  I am selecting the desired I/O pin with a demultiplexer and my first idea was to use a UDBClkEn block with a counter to gate the design-wide clock resource out to the physical pin.

       

Unfortunately this does not work, because the UDBClkEn block can only drive UDB clock input nets and since I am driving an I/O pin through a demux this obviously won't work.

       

I could drive a D FF but the output clock would be 1/2 of the desired clock. I could create a clock that is 2x the frequency of the design-wide clock but then I'm not guaranteed that it's synchronous. I could use a DDR block but PSoC doesn't have DDR primitives. I could just use an AND gate to gate the clock but now I have to worry about runt pulses.

       

What is the correct way to route a specific number of clock pulses from a design-wide clock resource through an I/O pin?

[ETRO_SSN583]

If timing is crucial Verilog solution would of course effect this easily.

       

If timing not that critical nothing more than a one shot timer counting out

   

n timing cycles and driving a gate/FF would suffice.

       

Regards, Dana.

[Anonymous]

 the design-wide clock I'm trying to get out of the device is used internally to synchronize data coming in to the device that is being clocked by that same clock.

       

I ended up with a negative-edge-triggered FF to create a glitch-free clock enable. I haven't tested it yet:

           

SWD_DONE goes high when 46 clock cycles have elapsed and stays high until the counter is reloaded. I use a negative edge triggered flip flop to ensure the first rising edge is seen.