Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator User Guide

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1. Overview of the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator 2. Setting Up the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator 3. Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator Graphical User Interface 4. Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator Pages 5. Factors Affecting the Accuracy of the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator 6. Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator User Guide Archive 7. Document Revision History for the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator User Guide A. Measuring Static Power
1. Overview of the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator x
1.1. Intel® FPGA PTC Power Model Status 1.2. Definitions of Power Terms Used in this Document
2. Setting Up the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator x
2.1. Availability 2.2. Obtaining the Standalone Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator 2.3. Estimating Power Consumption with the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator 2.4. Power Analysis for Dual-Core 1SG10M Intel® Stratix® 10 Devices
2.3. Estimating Power Consumption with the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator x
2.3.1. Estimating Power Consumption Before Starting the FPGA Design 2.3.2. Estimating Power Consumption While Creating the FPGA Design 2.3.3. Estimating Power Consumption After Completing the FPGA Design
3. Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator Graphical User Interface x
3.1. Intel® FPGA PTC Select Family Dialog Box 3.2. Intel® FPGA PTC Basic GUI Components 3.3. Deleting Rows from a Table
3.2. Intel® FPGA PTC Basic GUI Components x
3.2.1. Intel® FPGA PTC Data Entry Pages 3.2.2. Intel® FPGA PTC Field Types 3.2.3. Intel® FPGA PTC Input Field Dependencies 3.2.4. Intel® FPGA PTC Data Entry Error Messages
4. Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator Pages x
4.1. Intel® FPGA PTC - Power Summary 4.2. Intel® FPGA PTC - Common Page Elements 4.3. Intel® FPGA PTC - Device Selection and Thermal Analysis Windows 4.4. Intel® FPGA PTC - Main Page 4.5. Intel® FPGA PTC - Logic Page 4.6. Intel® FPGA PTC - RAM Page 4.7. Intel® FPGA PTC - DSP Page 4.8. Intel® FPGA PTC - Clock Page 4.9. Intel® FPGA PTC - PLL Page 4.10. Intel® FPGA PTC - I/O Page 4.11. Intel® FPGA PTC - I/O-IP Page 4.12. Intel® FPGA PTC - Transceiver Page 4.13. Intel® FPGA PTC - HPS Page 4.14. Intel® FPGA PTC - Crypto Page ( Intel® Agilex™ Devices with Crypto Blocks Only) 4.15. Intel® FPGA PTC - HBM Page ( Intel® Stratix® 10 Devices Only) 4.16. Intel® FPGA PTC - Thermal Page 4.17. Intel® FPGA PTC - Report Page
4.12. Intel® FPGA PTC - Transceiver Page x
4.12.1. Estimating E-Tile Channel PLL Power with the Intel Power and Thermal Calculator
5. Factors Affecting the Accuracy of the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator x
5.1. Toggle Rate 5.2. I/O Bank Allocation
1. Overview of the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator
2. Setting Up the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator
3. Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator Graphical User Interface
4. Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator Pages
5. Factors Affecting the Accuracy of the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator
6. Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator User Guide Archive
7. Document Revision History for the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator User Guide
A. Measuring Static Power

7. Document Revision History for the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator User Guide

Document Version Intel® Quartus® Prime Version Changes
2022.06.20 22.2
  • In the Intel® FPGA PTC Power Model Status topic, updated the statement of accuracy for the PTC for most Intel® Stratix® 10 and Intel® Agilex™ designs.
  • In the Estimating Power Consumption While Creating the FPGA Design topic, added a new section: Appending an Imported .ptc or .qptc File to An Existing Design in the Intel FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator.
  • In the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator Graphic User Interface chapter, added the Deleting Rows from a Table topic.
  • In the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator Pages chapter, in the Intel® FPGA PTC Power Summarytopic, added a note to the Intel® Agilex™ PTC Power Summary section of the table.
2022.03.28 22.1
  • In the Setting Up the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator chapter, in the Power Analysis for Dual-Core 1SG10M Intel® Stratix® 10 Devices topic, made a minor addition to step 7 and added a bullet point in the Interpreting the Spreadsheet section.
  • In the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator Pages chapter:
    • In the Intel® FPGA PTC - Common Page Elements topic, added a note to the Power Rail Current Consumption section.
    • Added a note to the RAM Mode description in the Intel® FPGA PTC - RAM Page topic,
    • Modified the # PMAs description in the Intel® FPGA PTC - Transceiver Page topic,
    • In the Intel® FPGA PTC - Report Page topic, added two bullet points explaining a minor format difference between Intel® Agilex™ and Intel® Stratix® 10 versions of the Report page.
2021.12.13 21.4
  • In the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator Graphical User Interface chapter, added an entry for the Crypto page to the Intel FPGA Data Entry Pages topic.
  • In the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator Pages chapter:
    • In the Power Summary topic, added Crypto to the Intel® Agilex™ PTC Power Summary section of the table.
    • Added the Crypto Page topic.
    • In the Thermal Page topic, modified the illustrations and changed the Apply recommended margin parameter to Apply additional margin, and modified the description accordingly.
2021.10.04 21.3
  • Added the Power Analysis for Dual-Core 1SG10M Intel® Stratix® 10 Devices topic.
  • Added a note and one new section to the Intel® FPGA PTC - Common Page Elements topic.
  • Removed a line from the Power Characteristics description in the Device Selection Parameters table in the Intel® FPGA PTC - Main Page topic.
  • Added the Calculating ALM Utilization and Calculating Register Utilization sections to the Intel® FPGA PTC - Logic Page topic.
  • Removed references to Enpirion devices, throughout.
2021.07.22 21.1 Revised the description of the FPGA Core row name for TSD Offset, in the TSD Offset table in the Intel® Stratix® 10 section of the Thermal Page topic.
2021.06.10 21.1 In the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator Pages chapter, implemented a minor wording change to the PLL Reference Clock Frequency (MHz) description in the I/O-IP Page topic.
2021.03.29 21.1
  • Implemented minor changes and updates to figures, throughout.
  • In the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator Pages chapter:
    • Modified the table in the Intel FPGA PTC - Power Summary topic.
    • Modified the Junction temperature, TJ description in the Main Page topic.
    • Added the eSRAM ID column to the RAM Page topic.
    • Added the Domain column to the Clock Page topic.
    • Added the IO Bank and Bank ID columns to the I/O Page topic.
    • Modified the description of the Treatment of Unused HSSI Dies parameter, and made several changes to the Transceiver Page Information table in the Transceiver Page topic.
    • Made extensive changes to theThermal Page topic.
    • Made changes to the Current and Power regulator Requirements Per Voltage Rail table, in the Report Page topic.
  • In the Factors Affecting the Accuracy of the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator chapter, added the I/O Bank Allocation topic.
2021.01.21 20.3 In the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator Pages chapter:
  • In the I/O Page topic, modified the description of the OE % column.
  • Under the Transceiver Page topic, added the Estimating E-Tile Channel PLL Power with the Intel Power and Thermal Calculator topic.
2020.10.05 20.3
  • In the Setting Up the Intel FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator chapter, made minor changes to the following topics:
    • Obtaining the Standalone Intel FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator
    • Estimating Power Consumption While Creating the FPGA Design
  • In the Intel FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator Graphical User Interface chapter, made minor changes to the following topics:
    • Intel FPGA PTC Select Family Dialog Box
    • Intel FPGA PTC Basic GUI Components
    • Intel FPGA PTC Data Entry Pages
    • Intel FPGA PTC Field Types
    • Intel FPGA PTC Data Entry Error Messages
  • Made changes to every topic in the Power and Thermal Calculator Pages chapter.
2020.07.24 20.1 In the Power and Thermal Calculator Tabs chapter, implemented changes to the Intel® FPGA PTC - ADC/DAC Tab ( Intel® Stratix® 10 Devices Only) topic.
2020.05.28 20.1 In the Intel® FPGA PTC - Thermal Tab topic:
  • Modified the FPGA Core TSD Offset (°C) description in the HBM Die ΨJC(°C/W) table.
  • Modified and consolidated the descriptions for the entries in the Transceiver Die TSD Offset (°C) table.
2020.04.27 20.1 In the Power and Thermal Calculator Tabs chapter, updated the figure and revised the table contents, in the Intel® FPGA PTC - ADC/DAC Tab ( Intel® Stratix® 10 Devices Only) topic.
2020.04.13 20.1
  • Added support for Intel® Stratix® 10 devices, throughout.
  • In the Setting Up the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator chapter:
    • Modified the Licensing information in the Availability topic.
    • Modified the Importing information in the Estimating Power Consumption While Creating the FPGA Design topic.
  • In the Power and Thermal Calculator Graphical User Interface chapter:
    • Added the Intel® FPGA PTC Select Family Dialog Box and Intel® FPGA PTC Basic GUI Components topics.
  • In the Power and Thermal Calculator Tabs chapter:
    • Added a Notice statement to the Power and Thermal Calculator Tabs topic.
    • Added the Intel® FPGA PTC - ADC/DAC Tab topic.
    • Added the Intel® FPGA PTC - HBM Tab topic.
    • Added the Intel® FPGA PTC - Thermal Tab topic.
    • Added the Intel® FPGA PTC - Intel® Enpirion® Tab topic.
  • Added the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator User Guide Archive.
2020.02.14 19.4 Initial release.
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