Altera Cyclone III LS FPGA - Manual (Page 32)

6–14 Chapter 6: Board Test System
The Power Monitor
Cyclone III LS FPGA Development Kit User Guide © October 2009 Altera Corporation
1 You can also run the Power Monitor as a stand-alone application. PowerTool.exe
resides in the dir>\kits\cycloneIIILS_3cls200_fpga\examples\board_test_system directory. On
Windows, click Start > All Programs > Altera > Cyclone III LS FPGA Development
Kit
<version> > Power Monitor to start the application.
The Power Monitor communicates to the MAX II device on the board through the
JTAG bus. A power monitor circuit attached to the MAX II device allows you to
measure the power that the Cyclone III LS FPGA device is consuming regardless of
the design currently running.
Figure 6–7 shows the Power Monitor.
The following sections describe the Power Monitor controls.
MAX II Information
These controls display information about the MAX II device.
MAX II Version —Indicates the version of MAX II code currently running on the
board. The MAX II code resides in the dir>\kits\cycloneIIILS_3cls200_fpga\factory_recovery directory. Newer revisions
of this code might be available on the
Cyclone III LS FPGA Development Kit page of
the Altera website.
Figure 6–7. The Power Monitor