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Altera Corporation

Shuze Zhao

Olivier Trescases

Vaughn Betz

Vaughan Betz

Ibrahim Ahmed

Ibrahim Ahmed Ibrahim

Modern FPGAs operate at a core voltage around 1V and therefore even small voltage fluctuations can lead to timing violations and logic errors. The Power Delivery Network (PDN) between a power supply and the FPGA core must be carefully designed to achieve a low output impedance over a broad range of frequencies. The present disclosure describes two techniques for characterization of the PDN: 1) to extract the DC resistance in the power delivery path, and 2) to identify the high impedance frequency band(s) in the PDN. An embedded impedance extraction tool is synthesized within the FPGA load, in coordination with a mixed-signal current-mode dc-dc converter. A self-calibrated Carry-Chain based ADC (CC-ADC) is used for high-speed sampling of the core voltage. By modifying the PDN based on the extracted results, the voltage operating range and reliability of a crossbar application may be greatly extended.

Characterization of power delivery network in field programmable gate arrays or digital integrated circuits

Methods and systems for operating a programmable logic fabric () including a dynamic parameter scaling controller () that tracks an operating parameter that functions at multiple operating conditions by maintaining the operating parameter while cycling through multiple operating conditions during a calibration mode using the calibration configuration for the programmable logic fabric (). The dynamic parameter scaling controller () also stores one or more functional values for the operating parameter in a calibration table. The dynamic parameter scaling controller () also operates the programmable logic fabric () using a design configuration using dynamic values for the operating parameter based at least in part on the one or more operating conditions.

Dynamic parameter operation of an FPGA

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