I/O Management and Board Development Support

Using the Quartus® Prime Standard Edition Software: An Introduction

In this introductory training, you will become familiar with the basics of the easy-to-use Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software design environment. You will learn about the steps involved in the basic FPGA design flow and how to use the software in the flow, going from design entry to device programming all within one tool. Project creation and management, design and I/O assignments, and simulation are also covered.

• 80 Minute on-demand training course

Describes support for optional third-party PCB design tools by Siemens EDA and Cadence*. Also includes information about signal integrity analysis and simulations with HSPICE and IBIS Models.

The Mentor Graphics* I/O Designer software allows you to take advantage of the full FPGA symbol design, creation, editing, and back-annotation flow supported by the Mentor Graphics* tools.

This chapter describes efficient planning and assignment of I/O pins in your target device. Consider I/O standards, pin placement rules, and your PCB characteristics early in the design phase.

This document contains a step-by-step tutorial and checklist of best-practice guidelines to design and review a power distribution network (PDN).

Includes information and suggestions for designing and laying out high-speed boards with FPGAs.

Provides general information on high-speed board design.

Power Distribution Network (PDN) Tool

The easy-to-use power distribution network (PDN) design tool is a graphical tool used with all FPGAs to optimize the board-level PDN. The purpose of the board-level PDN is to distribute power and return currents from the voltage regulating module (VRM) to the FPGA power supplies, and support optimal transceiver signal integrity and FPGA performance.

With the ever-increasing operating speed of interfaces in traditional FPGA design, the timing and signal integrity margins between the FPGA and other devices on the board must be within specification and tolerance before building a PCB.

The Quartus® Prime software can export two different types of I/O models that are useful for different simulation situations, IBIS models and HSPICE models.