MAX® 10 FPGA Design Guidelines

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Date 5/15/2024
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1.5.2.6. Use power distribution network (PDN) tool to plan for power distribution and decoupling capacitor selection

MAX® 10 devices include on-die decoupling capacitors to provide high-frequency decoupling.

To plan power distribution and return currents from the voltage regulating module to the FPGA power supplies, you can use the PDN design tool that optimizes the board-level PDN graphically. Although you can use SPICE simulation to simulate the circuit, the PDN design tool provides a fast, accurate, and interactive way to determine the right number of decoupling capacitors for optimal cost and performance trade-off.