Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX Device Design Guidelines

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Document Table of Contents x
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 Specifications

Table 2.  Design Specifications Checklist
Number Done? Checklist Item
1   Create detailed design specifications and a test plan if appropriate.
2   Plan clock domains, clock resources, and I/O interfaces early with a block diagram.

Create detailed design specifications that define the system before you create your logic design or complete your system design, by performing the following:

  • Specify the I/O interfaces for the FPGA
  • Identify the different clock domains
  • Include a block diagram of basic design functions
  • Include intellectual property (IP) blocks
    Note: Taking the time to create these specifications improves design efficiency, but this stage is often skipped by FPGA designers.
  • Create a functional verification/test plan
  • Consider a common design directory structure

Create a functional verification plan to ensure the team knows how to verify the system. Creating a test plan at this stage can also help you design for testability and design for manufacturability. For example, do you want to perform built-in-self test (BIST) functions to drive interfaces? If so, you could use a UART interface with a Nios® processor inside the FPGA device. You need to validate all the design interfaces.

If your design includes multiple designers, it is useful to consider a common design directory structure. This eases the design integration stages.

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