AN 872: Thermal and Power Guidelines: For Intel® Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA

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Date 8/30/2019
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Document Table of Contents
Document Table of Contents x
1. Introduction 2. Using the Board Management Controller 3. AFU Design Power Verification 4. Document Revision History for Thermal and Power Guidelines for Intel PAC with Intel Arria 10 GX FPGA
1. Introduction x
1.1. About this Document 1.2. Power Specification 1.3. Prerequisites 1.4. Tools Requirements
2. Using the Board Management Controller x
2.1. Auto-Shutdown 2.2. Recovering After Auto-Shutdown 2.3. Monitor On-Board Sensors Using OPAE 2.4. Monitor On-Board Sensors Using BWMonitor
3. AFU Design Power Verification x
3.1. Power Measurement Flow 3.2. Measuring the Total Board Power 3.3. Measuring the Real Static Power 3.4. Estimating the Worst Case Core Static Power
3.3. Measuring the Real Static Power x
3.3.1. Using the Intel® Quartus® Prime Programmer
1. Introduction
2. Using the Board Management Controller
3. AFU Design Power Verification
4. Document Revision History for Thermal and Power Guidelines for Intel PAC with Intel Arria 10 GX FPGA

2.4. Monitor On-Board Sensors Using BWMonitor

BWMonitor is a BittWare tool that allows you to measure FPGA/board temperature, voltage, and current.

Prerequisite: You must install a micro-USB cable between the Intel® FPGA PAC and the server.

  1. Install the appropriate BittWorks II Toolkit-Lite software, firmware, and bootloader.
    Table 3.  OS-Compatible BittWorks II ToolkitLite Version
    Operating System Release BittWorks II Toolkit-Lite Version Install Command
    CentOS 7.4/RHEL 7.4 2018.6 Enterprise Linux 7 (64-bit) bw2tk-lite-2018.6.el7.x86_64.rpm 
    sudo yum install bw2tk-\
lite-2018.6.el7.x86_64.rpm
    Ubuntu 16.04 2018.6 Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit) bw2tk-lite-2018.6.u1604.amd64.deb 
    sudo dpkg -i bw2tk-\
2018.6.u1604.amd64.deb
    Refer the Getting Started webpage to download the BMC firmware and tools:
    • BMC Firmware version: 26889
    • BMC Bootloader version: 26879

    Save the files to a known location on the host machine. The following script prompts for this location.

  2. Add Bittware tool to PATH:
    export PATH=/opt/bwtk/2018.6.0L/bin/:$PATH
You can launch the BWMonitor using: 
/opt/bwtk/2018.6L/bin/bwmonitor-gui&
Figure 1. Sample Measurements
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