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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

Ok, this sounds like the solution to my problem. There is some mention of how to shut down the core of the device and enter a sleep mode in this design note https://www.altera.com/en_us/pdfs/literature/hb/max-10/ug_m10_pwr.pdf (https://www.altera.com/en_us/pdfs/literature/hb/max-10/ug_m10_pwr.pdf). However, this power management function does not appear to be a MegaFunction that I can select from Quartus. It looks like custom source code from Altera. So, I will have to download it and see if I can compile it.

Also, is there a quick start guide to using the Power Estimator. Altera's user guides are long and boring and I fall asleep half way through executing them.

Thanks, Richard