AN 711: Power Reduction Features in Intel® Arria® 10 Devices

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AN 711: Power Reduction Features in Intel® Arria® 10 Devices
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Power Reduction and Performance Intel® Arria® 10 Power Reduction Techniques System Topology Options SmartVID Topologies SmartVID Power Savings Estimation VID Design for Intel® Arria® 10 FPGAs Document Revision History for AN 711: Power Reduction Features in Intel® Arria® 10 Devices
Intel® Arria® 10 Power Reduction Techniques x
SmartVID SmartVID General Configuration
System Topology Options x
Power Sense Lines
SmartVID Topologies x
SmartVID Controller IP Core Parallel Control System PMBus Control System Single-Wire Interface PWM Control System
Parallel Control System x
Intel® Quartus® Prime Parallel Control System Instantiation Parallel SmartVID Regulator Implementation Guidelines
PMBus Control System x
PMBus System Implementation PMBus Voltage Regulators PMBus VID Implementation Guidelines
Single-Wire Interface PWM Control System x
Single-Wire Interface PWM System Implementation
SmartVID Power Savings Estimation x
Enabling SmartVID in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Software
VID Design for Intel® Arria® 10 FPGAs x
Parallel VID PMBus SmartVID VID Design Guidelines
AN 711: Power Reduction Features in Intel® Arria® 10 Devices

System Topology Options

The VID register, temperature sensor, and VID soft controller are unchangeable. Intel provides the VID soft controller as a SmartVID Controller IP to customers. The remainder of the system may have many different solutions.

The voltage regulator controller interface can be implemented as:

  • A parallel output to drive a digitally adjustable voltage regulator directly
  • A multi-wire serial interface such as I2C, SMBus*, PMBus*, or similar interface hereafter referred to as PMBus
  • A one-wire pulse width modulated (PWM) output to be used with a circuit to adjust the output of an adjustable voltage regulator

Intel provides reference designs for some of these functions. Contact your sales representative to find out what is available at this time.

Table 3.  Reference Design Availability Schedule
Voltage Regulator Controller Availability1
Parallel Intel® Quartus® Prime software version 15.0
PMBus Intel® Quartus® Prime software version 15.1
Single-wire interface (one-wire PWM) Intel® Quartus® Prime software version 16.0

The Voltage Regulator System can be implemented as:

  • A parallel input digital voltage converter.
  • A multi-wire serial voltage converter that supports the PMBus standard.
  • An adjustable voltage regulator with an analog circuit that converts the PWM signal to some means that controls the regulator output, allowing the use of standard analog voltage regulator controllers.

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1 These software releases are available on www.altera.com.
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