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 Specifications

Table 2.  Design Specifications Checklist
Number Done? Checklist Item
1   Create detailed design specifications and a test plan if appropriate.
2   Plan clock resources and I/O interfaces early with a block diagram.

Create detailed design specifications that define the system before you create your logic design or complete your system design, by performing the following:

  • Specify the I/O interfaces for the FPGA
  • Identify the different clock domains
  • Include a block diagram of basic design functions
  • Include intellectual property (IP) blocks
    Note: Taking the time to create these specifications improves design efficiency, but this stage is often skipped by FPGA designers.
  • Create a functional verification/test plan
  • Consider a common design directory structure

Create a functional verification plan to ensure the team knows how to verify the system. Creating a test plan at this stage can also help you design for testability and design for manufacturability. For example, do you want to perform built-in-self test (BIST) functions to drive interfaces? If so, you could use a UART interface with a Nios® processor inside the FPGA device. You might require the ability to validate all the design interfaces.

If your design includes multiple designers, it is useful to consider a common design directory structure. This eases the design integration stages.

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