Appendix: Power Monitoring
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Appendix: Power Monitoring
The SmartFusion device on the PolarFire Evaluation Board monitors the voltage and current on different
PolarFire power rails. The device also measures the current for different components and displays the
power on the Microsemi PowerMonitor application. PowerMonitor is a Graphical User Interface (GUI)
application that runs on the host PC. The power monitoring program on the SmartFusion device
measures the total device power without any manual measurements.
Note:
The Microsemi PowerMonitor application is provided along with the manufacturing test design files.
The power monitoring program does the following:
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Monitors voltage on all PolarFire power rails.
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Measures current and power on the following rails:
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VDD: Power supply for fabric core.
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VDDA: Power supply for transceiver receiver, transmit, and common circuits.
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VDDA25: Power supply for transceiver PLLs. This supply is isolated from other power supplies
to keep the noise low and avoid leakage for PCIe, EXT_PLL, and GPSS.
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VDD25: Power supply for corner phase-locked loop (8 PLLs) and secure non-volatile memory
(sNVM). These are tied together at the package level to keep the noise on the stand alone PLLs
low.
•
Monitors Flash*Freeze power when the PolarFire device is in Flash*Freeze mode.
•
Powers down the board if voltage threshold violations are observed on any power rail.
The analog computing engine block in the SmartFusion device is configured to measure the voltage and
current on the PolarFire power rails. The following figure shows the power monitoring block diagram.
Figure 21 •
Power Monitoring Block Diagram
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Prerequisites
Before installing PowerMonitor, perform the following steps:
1.
Download the design files from the Microsemi website.
Note:
The design files will be available in the future release.
2.
Set Pin 1 and 2 of the J4 Jumper.
3.
Connect the power supply to
J9
and turn ON the
SW3
switch.
4.
Connect the Mini USB cable from
J5
to the host PC.
The LEDs D2 and D3 start blinking, which indicates that the power monitor program is running on
the SmartFusion device. The USB connection is necessary to power-up the SmartFusion device.
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