Intel Cyclone 10 LP Device Design Guidelines

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Intel® Cyclone® 10 LP Device Design Guidelines
Intel® Cyclone® 10 LP Device Design Guidelines x
Design Flow System Specification Device Selection Early System and Board Planning Pin Connection Considerations for Board Design I/O and Clock Planning Design Entry Design Implementation, Analysis, Optimization, and Verification Document Revision History for Intel® Cyclone® 10 LP Device Design Guidelines
System Specification x
Design Specifications IP Selection Platform Designer
Device Selection x
Device Variant PLLs and Clock Routing Logic, Memory, and Multiplier Density I/O Pin Count, LVDS Channels, and Package Offering Speed Grade Vertical Device Migration
Early System and Board Planning x
Early Power Estimation Planning for Device Configuration Planning for On-chip Debugging
Planning for Device Configuration x
Configuration Scheme Selection Configuration Features Intel® Quartus® Prime Configuration Settings
Configuration Scheme Selection x
Serial Configuration Devices Download Cables
Intel® Quartus® Prime Configuration Settings x
Optional Configuration Pins
Planning for On-chip Debugging x
On-chip Debugging Tools Planning Guidelines for Debugging Tools
Pin Connection Considerations for Board Design x
Device Power-Up Power Pin Connections and Power Supplies Configuration Pin Connections Board-related Intel® Quartus® Prime Settings Signal Integrity Considerations Board-level Simulation and Advanced I/O Timing Analysis
Power Pin Connections and Power Supplies x
Decoupling Capacitors PLL Board Design Guidelines
Configuration Pin Connections x
Clock Trace Signal Integrity JTAG Pins MSEL Configuration Mode Pins Other Configuration Pins
JTAG Pins x
JTAG Pin Connections Download Cable Operating Voltage JTAG Signal Buffering
Board-related Intel® Quartus® Prime Settings x
Device-wide Output Enable Pin Unused Pins
Signal Integrity Considerations x
Voltage Reference Pins Simultaneous Switching Noise I/O Termination
I/O and Clock Planning x
Making FPGA Pin Assignments Early Pin Planning and I/O Assignment Analysis I/O Features and Pin Connections Clock and PLL Selection PLL Feature Guidelines Clock Control Features I/O Simultaneous Switching Noise
I/O Features and Pin Connections x
I/O Signaling Type Selectable Standards and Flexible I/O Banks Dual-Purpose and Special Pin Connections Intel® Cyclone® 10 LP I/O Features
PLL Feature Guidelines x
Clock Feedback Mode Clock Outputs
Design Entry x
Design Recommendations Using IP Cores Recommended HDL Coding Styles Register Power-up Levels and Control Signals
Design Implementation, Analysis, Optimization, and Verification x
Selecting a Synthesis Tool Device Resource Utilization Reports Intel® Quartus® Prime Messages Timing Constraints and Analysis Area and Timing Optimization Preserving Performance and Reducing Compilation Time Simulation Power Analysis Power Optimization
Timing Constraints and Analysis x
Recommended Timing Optimization and Analysis Assignments
Power Optimization x
Device and Design Power Optimization Techniques Intel® Quartus® Prime Power Optimization Techniques
Device and Design Power Optimization Techniques x
Clock Power Management Memory Power Reduction I/O Power Guidelines
Intel® Cyclone® 10 LP Device Design Guidelines

Design Recommendations

Table 52.  Design Recommendations Checklist
Number Done? Checklist Item
1   Use synchronous design practices. Pay attention to clock signals.
2   Use the Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Assistant to check design reliability.

In a synchronous design, a clock signal triggers all events. When all of the registers’ timing requirements are met, a synchronous design behaves in a predictable and reliable manner for all process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) conditions. You can easily target synchronous designs to different device families or speed grades.

Problems with asynchronous design techniques include reliance on propagation delays in a device, incomplete timing analysis, and possible glitches. Pay particular attention to your clock signals, because they have a large effect on your design’s timing accuracy, performance, and reliability. Problems with clock signals can cause functional and timing problems in your design. Use dedicated clock pins and clock routing for best results. For clock inversion, multiplication, and division, use the device PLLs. For clock multiplexing and gating, use the dedicated clock control block or PLL clock switchover feature instead of combinational logic. If you must use internally generated clock signals, register the output of any combinational logic used as a clock signal to reduce glitches. For example, if you divide a clock using combinational logic, clock the final stage with the clock signal that was used to clock the divider circuit.

The Design Assistant in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software is a design-rule checking tool that enables you to check for design issues early in the design flow. The Design Assistant checks your design for adherence to Intel recommended design guidelines or design rules. To run the Design Assistant, click Processing > Start > Start Design Assistant. To set the Design Assistant to run automatically during compilation, turn on Run Design Assistant during compilation in the Settings dialog box. You can also use third-party “lint” tools to check your coding styles.

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