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New ContributorThank you for the help, but actually this is not my board. What you're talking about is the Development Kit, and I'm working on the Evaluation Kit (Intel MAX 10 FPGA 10M50 Evaluation Kit).
I have the schematic for my board: MAX10_10M50_EVAL_A1_2 (intel.com)
I want to compare several boards and find the most energy efficient one. To obtain the power consumption, I need to measure a voltage and a current. The User Guide of the board says that I should be able to measure VCC_CORE (not explaining how though).
What I don't understand is how I can measure both of these values (especially the current) if the only way to access the circuit is those test pads?
Super ContributorIf you need that level of power measurement, in the past I'd lift pins and put in wire coils. For overall power use, you of course would put an ammeter on the power going in.
I don't know what that bullet point is trying to say, but you still need to use traditional methods for power measurement.
You could also use the Power Analyzer in Quartus if you've created a test design.
New ContributorI'm afraid I can't lift pins as you propose, and I also don't want to measure the whole board consumption, only the consumption of the FPGA.
Thank you for your help but even if I wanted to lift pins, since I have no information on what current or voltage to measure, I wouldn't know for sure that I'd be measuring the right thing. I'm starting to believe that the bullet point was an unfortunate copy-paste from the Dev Kit documentation.
Could someone from Intel give me more information about it or admit that this board isn't made for power consumption measurement?
Regular ContributorHello,
Have you tried the Power Analyzer method as suggested?
Thanks.
