Altera Device-Specific Power Delivery Network User Manual
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Chapter 1: User Guide for the Device-Specific Power Delivery Network (PDN) Tool
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Design PCB Decoupling Using the PDN Tool
September 2012
Altera Corporation
Device-Specific Power Delivery Network (PDN) Tool User Guide
In Step 3, you need to have a good estimate of the parameters entered to derive the
proper decoupling guidelines (Z
TARGET
and F
EFFECTIVE
). Although you need to
determine those guidelines based on the worst-case scenario, pessimistic settings
result in hard-to-achieve guidelines and over design of your PCB decoupling. For the
recommended settings of the percentage of transient current and maximum allowable
voltage ripple for selected power rail, refer to
Table 1–1 on page 1–4
.
In Step 4, you must adjust the number and value of the PCB capacitors in the
Decoupling Capacitor
(Mid/High Frequency) and Decoupling Capacitor (Bulk)
fields to keep the plotted Z
EFF
below Z
TARGET
until F
EFFECTIVE
. If you are not able to
find a capacitor combination that meets your design goal, you can try to change the
parameters at Step 2; for example, reducing the BGA via inductance used in the
Calculate
option by reducing the BGA via length in the BGA_VIA tab and using the
low
option for plane spreading. These changes reduce parasitic inductance and make
it easier to achieve your decoupling goal. To achieve the low spreading setting, you
must place the mid to high frequency PCB capacitors close to the FPGA device. You
also must minimize the dielectric thickness between the power and ground plane.
If you are not able to meet the Z
TARGET
requirement with the above changes, the PDN
in your design may have reached its physical limitation under the parameters entered
in Step 3. You need to go back to Step 3 and re-examine these parameters to check if
they are over pessimistic.
The design shown in
is a decoupling example for S4GX230KF40 VCC
power rail. Assume that the minimum voltage supply is 0.9 V, I
MAX
is 7 A, transient
current is 50% of I
MAX
, and the maximum allowable ripple is 3% of supply voltage.
The V
CC
rail has 50 power BGA vias. The length of BGA via is assumed to be 60 mil.