Driving 48 identical tiles with sub‑picosecond skew requires a dedicated clock tree. Modern FPGAs provide H-tree clock networks capable of 50+ tiles.

48 tiles switching at high frequency can draw >10W in a mid‑range FPGA. Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) per tile group would be required.

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