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Answers to Top FAQs
1. Hyperflex® FPGA Architecture Introduction
2. Hyperflex® Architecture RTL Design Guidelines
3. Compiling Hyperflex® Architecture Designs
4. Design Example Walk-Through
5. Retiming Restrictions and Workarounds
6. Optimization Example
7. Hyperflex® Architecture Porting Guidelines
8. Appendices
9. Hyperflex® Architecture High-Performance Design Handbook Archive
10. Hyperflex® Architecture High-Performance Design Handbook Revision History
2.4.2.1. High-Speed Clock Domains
2.4.2.2. Restructuring Loops
2.4.2.3. Control Signal Backpressure
2.4.2.4. Flow Control with FIFO Status Signals
2.4.2.5. Flow Control with Skid Buffers
2.4.2.6. Read-Modify-Write Memory
2.4.2.7. Counters and Accumulators
2.4.2.8. State Machines
2.4.2.9. Memory
2.4.2.10. DSP Blocks
2.4.2.11. General Logic
2.4.2.12. Modulus and Division
2.4.2.13. Resets
2.4.2.14. Hardware Re-use
2.4.2.15. Algorithmic Requirements
2.4.2.16. FIFOs
2.4.2.17. Ternary Adders
5.2.1. Insufficient Registers
5.2.2. Short Path/Long Path
5.2.3. Fast Forward Limit
5.2.4. Loops
5.2.5. One Critical Chain per Clock Domain
5.2.6. Critical Chains in Related Clock Groups
5.2.7. Complex Critical Chains
5.2.8. Extend to locatable node
5.2.9. Domain Boundary Entry and Domain Boundary Exit
5.2.10. Critical Chains with Dual Clock Memories
5.2.11. Critical Chain Bits and Buses
5.2.12. Delay Lines
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2.2.7. Initial Power-Up Conditions
The initial condition of your design at power-up represents the state of the design at clock cycle 0. The initial condition is highly dependent on the underlying device technology. Once the design leaves the initial state, there is no automated method to return to that state. In other words, the initial condition state is a transitional rather than functional state. In addition, other design components can affect the validity of the initial state. For example, a PLL that is not yet locked upon power-up can impact the initial state.
Therefore, do not rely on initial conditions when designing for Hyperflex® architecture FPGAs. Rather, use a single reset signal to place the design in a known, functional state until all the interfaces have powered up, locked, and trained.