AN 796: Cyclone® V and Arria® V SoC Device Design Guidelines

ID 683360
Date 3/30/2022
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3.2.2. HPS I/O Settings: Constraints and Drive Strengths

GUIDELINE: Ensure that you have I/O settings for the HPS Dedicated I/O (drive strength, I/O standard, weak pull-up enable, etc.)

The HPS pin location assignments are managed automatically when you generate the Platform Designer (Standard) system containing the HPS. As for the HPS SDRAM, the I/O standard and termination settings are done once you run the “hps_sdram_p0_pin_assignments.tcl” script that is created once the Platform Designer (Standard) HPS Component has been generated.

Note: You can locate the script “hps_sdram_p0_pin_assignments.tcl” in the following directory once the Platform Designer (Standard) HPS Component has been generated: <Quartus project directory>\<Platform Designer (Standard) file name>\synthesis\submodule. Shown below is an example of selecting the script in Intel® Quartus® Prime.

The only HPS I/O constraints you must manage are for HPS Dedicated Function Pins and HPS Dedicated I/O. Constraints such as drive strength, I/O standards, and weak pull-up enables are added to the Intel® Quartus® Prime project just like FPGA constraints and are applied to the HPS at boot time when the second stage bootloader configures the I/O. For FPGA I/O, the I/O constraints are applied to the FPGA configuration file.

Note: During power up, the HPS Dedicated I/O required for boot flash devices are configured by the Boot ROM, depending on the BSEL values.