Intel® MAX® 10 Power Management User Guide

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Date 5/27/2022
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2.3.1. Power Management Controller Architecture

Figure 5. Power Management Controller Architecture


The Intel® MAX® 10 device contains hardware features that enable I/O power down and global clock (GCLK) gating to manage low-power state during sleep mode. You can power down the I/O buffer dynamically when your application is in idle or sleep mode. One example is the digital single lens reflex DSLR camera application where the LVDS I/O needs to be powered down during the idle condition. Without touching any buttons, the screen turns off while the camera is still powered on.

Intel provides a soft power management controller as reference design utilizing low-power features implemented in the Intel® MAX® 10 devices. You can modify the reference design based on your application. The soft power management controller includes a simple finite state machine (FSM) to manage the low-power state mode by powering down the I/O buffer and GCLK gating during sleep mode.

All Intel® MAX® 10 devices contain hardware features for clock gating. The 10M16, 10M25, 10M40, and 10M50 devices contain hardware features for I/O power down. With hardware features, you can manage the low-power state during sleep mode by using the soft power management controller that you define.

You can implement the power management controller in FPGA core fabric with a minimum of one I/O port reserved for sleep mode enter and exit signals.