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Chapter 5: Board Test System

The Power Monitor

Stratix V Advanced Systems Development Kit

February 2013

Altera Corporation

User Guide

The Power Monitor communicates with the MAX V device on the board through the
JTAG bus. A power monitor circuit attached to the MAX V device allows you to
measure the power that each Stratix V GX FPGA device is consuming.

Figure 5–7

shows the Power Monitor.

The following sections describe the Power Monitor controls.

General Information

The General information controls display the following information about the
MAX V device:

MAX V version

—Indicates the version of MAX V code currently running on the

board. The MAX V code resides in the <install
dir>
\kits\stratixVGX_5sgxea7nf45_as\factory_recovery and <install
dir>
\kits\stratixVGX_5sgxea7nf45_as\examples\max5 directories. Newer
revisions of this code might be available on the

Stratix V Advanced Systems

Development Kit

page of the Altera website.

Power rail

—Selects the power rail to measure. After setting the Power rail list to

the desired rail, click Reset to refresh the screen with new board readings.

1

All rails use a 0.003 ohm resistor, except S5_VCC that uses 0.001 ohms.

Figure 5–7. The Power Monitor

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