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12 years agoConfiguration I/O voltage
I am attempting to locate 2.5V LVDS differential signals into Bank 3A of a Cyclone V device - this being the Bank that also contains the Configuration pins.
In Quartus II - Device Assignments / Device and Pin options.. / Configuration I am able to specify "Active Serialx4" scheme and select configuration device "EPCQ128". Now, there are two more Options : 1) Configuration device I/O voltage - with selection of "Auto" or 3.3V .... I'd like to know what the "Auto" setting does here - do I NEED to set it to 3.3V or does Auto do this for me (as its an Altera Device that is selected). But more importantly : 2) (Tick box) - " Force VCCIO to be compatible with configuration I/O voltage " for which the description comes up : "Forces the VCCIO voltage of the configuration pins to be the same as the configuration device I/O voltage" - now what I'm trying to understand is what this box does, and why I would choose NOT TO tick it..... - If I leave it unticked, my design passes the I/O Assignment analysis phase. (= Job done ??) But if I tick it, I get messages : ! 169213 Configuration voltage level of 3.3V is enforced on the I/O Bank 3A. The VCCIO of the I/O Bank is set to 3.3V followed by errors for the LVDS pins : ! 169235 I/O bank 3A cannot select VCCIO of 2.5V which is required for pin ("pin_name") with I/O standard LVDS This behaviour implies that leaving the tick box unticked allows me to have the configuration pins within Bank 3A operating at 3.3V I/O and the LVDS pins within Bank 3A operating at 2.5V I/O......(which is what I would like to achieve) - Is this a correct assumption ?