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Signal and Power Integrity Support Center
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Signal and Power Integrity Support Center

Get Started Tools and Models Guidelines and Documentation Power Integrity
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The Signal Integrity and Power Integrity Support Center provides information on how to ensure signal integrity and power integrity in your high-speed designs. For Agilex™ devices, refer to the dedicated Agilex guided journeys listed below.

Board Design Guided Journeys for Agilex™ 7, Agilex™ 5 and Agilex™ 3 Devices

Design Hubs provide a Step-by-Step Guided Journeys for standard development flows surfacing the key critical resources and documentation.

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Get Started

Introduction

  • Signal Integrity Basics

Tools and Models

  • IBIS Models for FPGA Devices
  • SPICE Models for FPGAs
  • EDA Tool Support Resource Center
  • FPGA Development kits provide a variety of connector interfaces for transceivers
  • Visit the Board Developer Center to view all the tools and models for your FPGA designs.

Guidelines and Documentation

Board Design - General Guidelines

  • High-Speed Board Design Advisor
  • Input Signal Edge Rate Guidance White Paper
  • AN 574: Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Power Delivery Network (PDN) Design Methodology
  • AN 613: PCB Stackup Design Considerations for FPGAs

Board Design - External Memory Interfaces Guidelines

  • External Memory Interface Handbook

Board Design - Transceivers Guidelines

  • Agilex™ 7 Device Family High-Speed Serial Interface Signal Integrity Design Guidelines
  • Agilex™ 5 FPGAs and SoCs PCB Design Guidelines (HSSI, EMIF, MIPI, True Differential, PDN)
  • AN 528: PCB Dielectric Material Selection and Fiber Weave Effect on High-Speed Channel Routing
  • AN 529: Via Optimization Techniques for High-Speed Channel Designs
  • AN 530: Optimizing Impedance Discontinuity Caused by Surface Mount Pads for High-Speed Channel Designs
  • AN 596: Modeling and Design Considerations for 10 Gbps Connectors
  • AN 651: PCB Breakout Routing for High-Density Serial Channel Designs Beyond 10 Gbps
  • AN 672: Transceiver Link Design Guidelines for High-Gbps Data Rate Transmission
  • AN 678: High-Speed Link Tuning Using Signal Conditioning Circuitry in Stratix® V Transceivers
  • AN 684: Design Guidelines for 100 Gbps - CFP2 Interface
  • AN 689: High Speed Channel Design Using the SFF-8431 Protocol
  • AN 766: Stratix® 10 Devices, High Speed Signal Interface Layout Design Guideline

Additional Videos

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Use the IBIS-AMI Model to Estimate Signal Integrity of Arria® 10 Transceiver

Learn how to perform a signal integrity simulation with an Arria® 10 transceiver IBIS-AMI model in the Advanced Link Analyzer. Additionally, this video covers eye diagram reporting.

Power Integrity

Power Management Resource Center

Altera develops FPGAs, SoCs and CPLDs using advanced process technologies that provide fast performance and high-logic density. The Power Management Resource Center helps you:

  • Understand power consumption considerations when planning system designs.
  • Estimate power requirements throughout the entire design flow.
  • Manage and deliver power requirements using solutions from leading power-IC companies.

Power Analysis & Estimation Tools

Early Power Estimators (EPE) and Power AnalyzerPowerPlay Power Analyzer Support ResourcesPower Distribution Network
Estimate power consumption from concept through implementation.Get help using the Power Analyzer Tool.Design Tool used with FPGAs to optimize the board-level PDN.

Power Resources

FPGA Total Power Components IntroductionPower Supply RegulationPower Supply IntegrityThermal Management
Learn about FPGA power usage.Learn how to choose a regulated voltage supply.Describes proper bypassing and decoupling techniques.Learn about power consumption and thermal management.

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For other design guidelines, visit the following Developer Centers:

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