application where the LVDS I/O needs to be powered down during the idle condition. Without touching
any buttons, the screen turns off while the camera is still powered on.
Altera provides a soft power management controller as reference design utilizing low-power features
implemented in the MAX 10 devices. You can modify the reference design based on your application. The
soft power management controller includes a simple finite state machine (FSM) to manage the low-power
state mode by powering down the I/O buffer and GCLK gating during sleep mode.
All MAX 10 devices contain hardware features for clock gating. The 10M16, 10M25, 10M40, and 10M50
devices contain hardware features for I/O power down. With hardware features, you can manage the low-
power state during sleep mode by using the soft power management controller that you define.
You can implement the power management controller in FPGA core fabric with a minimum of one I/O
port reserved for sleep mode enter and exit signals.
Internal Oscillator
The internal oscillator clocks the power management controller operation. The internal oscillator is
routed from flash to the core. The internal oscillator enables the power management controller to detect
the wake-up event and the sleep mode event. In order to enable the internal oscillator clock when the
power management controller is enabled, you have to set
oscena
to
1
. For the clock frequency of the
internal oscillator, refer to the
MAX 10 FPGA Device Datasheet
.
Related Information
MAX 10 FPGA Device Datasheet
Provides details about the MAX 10 ramp time requirements, internal oscillator clock frequency, and hot-
socketing specifications.
I/O Buffer Power Down
The MAX 10 device has a dynamic power-down feature on some of the I/O buffers that have high-static
power consumption. The dynamic power-down feature is only applicable for the I/O buffers that have
been programmed for the I/O standards in the following table.
Table 2-6: I/O Buffer Power Down
I/O Buffer
I/O Standards
Control Port
Control Signal Capability
Input
SSTL, HSTL, HSUL,
and LVDS
nsleep
1 per I/O bank
(4)
Output
All I/O standards
oe
1 per I/O buffer
During power-up and configuration modes, the soft power management controller is not yet configured
and the control signals are forced to
1
(inactive). After configuration mode, when the power management
controller is activated, the power management controller will default the control signals to
1
. When
control signals are
0
, the power management controller powers down or tri-states the I/O buffers.
Subsequently the I/O is put into the sleep mode.
The MAX 10 device I/O buffers need to maintain the previous states during the sleep mode operation.
The previous states in your core logics remain upon exiting the sleep mode.
(4)
I/O banks 1A and 1B share one control signal.
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Internal Oscillator
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2015.11.02
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MAX 10 Power Management Features and Architecture
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