Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX Device Design Guidelines

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Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX Device Design Guidelines
Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX Device Design Guidelines x
System Specification Device Selection Early System and Board Planning Pin Connection Considerations for Board Design I/O and Clock Planning Design Entry Design Implementation, Analysis, Optimization, and Verification Design Checklist Appendix: Cyclone® 10 GX Transceiver Design Guidelines Conclusion Document Revision History
System Specification x
Design Specifications IP Selection Platform Designer
Device Selection x
Logic, Memory, and Multiplier Density I/O Pin Count, LVDS Channels, and Package Offering PLLs and Clock Routing Speed Grade Vertical Device Migration
Early System and Board Planning x
Early Power Estimation Temperature Sensing for Thermal Management Voltage Sensor Planning for Device Configuration Planning for On-Chip Debugging
Planning for Device Configuration x
Configuration Scheme Selection Configuration Features Quartus Prime Configuration Settings
Configuration Scheme Selection x
Serial Configuration Devices Download Cables Using the Parallel Flash Loader Intel® FPGA IP with MAX Devices
Configuration Features x
Data Compression Design Security Using Configuration Bitstream Encryption Remote System Upgrades SEU Mitigation and CRC Error Checks
Planning for On-Chip Debugging x
On-Chip Debugging Tools Planning Guidelines for Debugging Tools
Pin Connection Considerations for Board Design x
Device Power-Up Power Pin Connections and Power Supplies Configuration Pin Connections Board-Related Quartus Prime Settings Signal Integrity Considerations Board-Level Simulation and Advanced I/O Timing Analysis
Power Pin Connections and Power Supplies x
Decoupling Capacitors PLL and Transceiver Board Design Guidelines
Configuration Pin Connections x
DCLK and TCK Signal Integrity JTAG Pins MSEL Configuration Mode Pins Other Configuration Pins
Board-Related Quartus Prime Settings x
Device-Wide Output Enable Pin Unused Pins
Signal Integrity Considerations x
High-Speed Board Design Voltage Reference Pins Simultaneous Switching Noise I/O Termination
I/O and Clock Planning x
Making FPGA Pin Assignments Early Pin Planning and I/O Assignment Analysis I/O Features and Pin Connections Clock and PLL Selection PLL Feature Guidelines Clock Control Block I/O Simultaneous Switching Noise
I/O Features and Pin Connections x
I/O Signaling Type Selectable I/O Standards and Flexible I/O Banks Memory Interfaces Dual-Purpose and Special Pin Connections Cyclone® 10 GX I/O Features
PLL Feature Guidelines x
Clock Feedback Mode Clock Outputs
Design Entry x
Design Recommendations Using IP Cores Reconfiguration Recommended HDL Coding Styles Register Power-Up Levels and Control Signals Planning for Hierarchical and Team-Based Design
Reconfiguration x
Dynamic Reconfiguration
Planning for Hierarchical and Team-Based Design x
Planning Design Partitions Planning in Bottom-Up and Team-Based Flows Creating a Design Floorplan
Design Implementation, Analysis, Optimization, and Verification x
Selecting a Synthesis Tool Device Resource Utilization Reports Quartus Prime Messages Timing Constraints and Analysis Area and Timing Optimization Preserving Performance and Reducing Compilation Time Simulation Formal Verification Power Analysis Power Optimization
Timing Constraints and Analysis x
Recommended Timing Optimization and Analysis Assignments
Power Optimization x
Device and Design Power Optimization Techniques Quartus Prime Power Optimization Techniques
Device and Design Power Optimization Techniques x
Clock Power Management Memory Power Reduction I/O Power Guidelines
Quartus Prime Power Optimization Techniques x
Power Optimization Advisor
Appendix: Cyclone® 10 GX Transceiver Design Guidelines x
Transceiver PHY Architecture Overview Transceiver Bank Architecture PHY Layer Transceiver Components Transceiver Phase-Locked Loops Clock Generation Block (CGB) Calibration Transceiver Design Flow
PHY Layer Transceiver Components x
The GX Transceiver Channel
Transceiver Phase-Locked Loops x
Advanced Transmit (ATX) PLL Fractional PLL (fPLL) Channel PLL (CMU/CDR PLL)
Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX Device Design Guidelines

Design Recommendations

Table 50.  Design Recommendations Checklist
Number Done? Checklist Item
1   Use synchronous design practices. Pay attention to clock signals.

In a synchronous design, a clock signal triggers all events. When all of the registers’ timing requirements are met, a synchronous design behaves in a predictable and reliable manner for all process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) conditions. You can easily target synchronous designs to different device families or speed grades.

Problems with asynchronous design techniques include reliance on propagation delays in a device, incomplete timing analysis, and possible glitches. Pay particular attention to your clock signals, because they have a large effect on your design’s timing accuracy, performance, and reliability. Problems with clock signals can cause functional and timing problems in your design. Use dedicated clock pins and clock routing for best results. For clock inversion, multiplication, and division, use the device PLLs. For clock multiplexing and gating, use the dedicated clock control block or PLL clock switchover feature instead of combinational logic. If you must use internally generated clock signals, register the output of any combinational logic used as a clock signal to reduce glitches. For example, if you divide a clock using combinational logic, clock the final stage with the clock signal that was used to clock the divider circuit.

For more information, refer to “PLL Board Design Guidelines”.

Cyclone® 10 GX devices do not support the Quartus Prime Design Assistant design-rule checking tool.

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