PCB High-Speed Signal Design Guidelines: Agilex™ 5 FPGAs and SoCs

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Date 11/18/2024
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3.3.9. Others

  • Do not route high-speed differential traces under power connectors, power delivery inductors, other interface connectors, crystals, oscillators, clock synthesizers, magnetic devices, or integrated circuits that use or duplicate clocks.
  • Keep large spacing from high-speed traces, vias, and pads to high-noise power nets. High-noise power nets include nets like the switching node (phase node) of a voltage regulator module (VRM), 12 V power net, and high current transient power net.
  • If you use a dog-bone fan-out in the BGA pin area, cut out the ground reference plane under the high-speed signal pad to reduce the capacitance.
  • Return ground vias needs to be placed within 50-mil of the transitional via. This is very important for single ended signals, whereas for differential signal it can help on achieving good common-mode current return path.
  • Do not place test points, test vias on high speed traces to minimize reflection. Utilize vias and connector pads as test points instead.