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9 years ago

MAX10 10M04SA Consuming Too Much Current In Idle

I have a custom board with a 10M04SAE144. It has a switching power supply, TI's TPS54229 converting +5V to +3.3V for the FPGA. With the external oscillator disabled and a dummy *.pof file loaded into...
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9 years ago

You can run the Power Play tool in Quartus to get an estimation of static and dynamic power dissipation. According to the tool, there will be a relevant static core power dissipation, about 120 mW for a similar 10M04SA configuration. The observed extra might be caused by floating inputs.

Means MAX10 single supply devices are not well suited for low power applications.