User-defined leds, Power supply, Power measurement – Altera MAX 10 FPGA User Manual

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Chapter 3: Board Components

3–9

Power Supply

October 2014

Altera Corporation

MAX 10 FPGA (10M08S, 144-EQFP) Evaluation Kit

User Guide

User-Defined LEDs

The development board includes five user-defined LEDs. Board references D1
through D5 are user LEDs that allow status and debugging signals to be driven to the
LEDs from the designs loaded into the MAX 10 FPGA device. The LEDs illuminate
when a logic 0 is driven, and turns off when a logic 1 is driven. There is no
board-specific function for these LEDs.

Table 3–5

lists the user-defined LED schematic signal names and their corresponding

MAX 10 FPGA pin numbers.

Power Supply

The development board is powered up through a USB cable. The green LED
illuminates when the board is powered up.

Power Measurement

In order to measure the actual power of the FPGA, there are test pads on the board to
be used as probe points for multi-meter probes. The user can measure the current and
using the equation P = R x I

2

. (Power = Resistance x Current Squared), calculate the

power dissipation.

Test pads TP2 and TP3 are used to measure the current consumed by the FPGA core.
Test pads TP4 and TP5 are used to measure the current consumed by all of the FPGA's
I/O banks. All the other test pads are used to verify the voltage levels of various
nodes on the board.

Table 3–5. User-Defined LED Schematic Signal Names and Functions

Board Reference

Schematic Signal Name

I/O Standard

MAX 10 FPGA Device Pin Number

D1

LED1

2.0-V

132

D2

LED2

2.0-V

134

D3

LED3

2.0-V

135

D4

LED4

2.0-V

140

D5

LED5

2.0-V

141

Table 3–6. Power Measurement Details

Test Pad #’s

Measuring

Description

Expected Value

TP2 - TP3

FPGA core

current

Power calculation for FPGA Vcc-core power consumption.

Resistor R1 = 0.1 ohms. Current measured by user's multi-meter.

___ mWatts

TP4 - TP5

FPGA I/O

current

Power calculation for FPGA Vcc-io power consumption.

Resistor R4 = 0.1 ohms. Current measured by user's multi-meter.

___ mWatts

Test Pad #’s

Measuring

Description

Expected Value

TP1

Board input

voltage

Verify the USB input voltage

5.0-volts

TP6

Analog

voltage

Verify the proper voltage required by the FPGA Vcca inputs

3.3-volts

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