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Powering Altera Arria 10 FPGA and Arria 10 SoC: Tested and Verified Power Management Solutions

Afshin Odabaee - Business Manager - uModule Power Products Feb 19th 2016
Design Note DN549: Introduction FPGA development kits allow system developers to evaluate an FPGA without having to design a complete system. Figures 1 and 2 show Altera’s new 20nm Arria 10 FPGAs and Arria 10 SoCs (System-on-Chip) development boards. These boards are tested and verified by Altera, exemplifying best design ...

Linduino PSM

Michael Jones - Applications Engineer Mar 12th 2015
While many engineers use a dongle and tools to configure Power System Management devices via PMBus, a growing number of designs are adding Board Management Controllers, or connecting their PMBus to an existing microcontroller or application processer. At LTC, the dongle/tool option is comprised of a DC1613 and LTpowerPlay, and ...

LTC Power System Management Tips for Success

Michael Petersen - Design Section Leader Jul 28th 2014
Here are some tips to make sure you get the most out of Linear Technology's Power System Management (PSM) products by using them the way they were intended.  Follow these rules to stay out of trouble. Rule #1: When Sharing is Good a) Always connect SHARE_CLK pins together. This keeps all LTC PSM devices on a common ...

PMBus Spec Working Group Issues Version 1.3 For Review

Michael Jones - Applications Engineer Sep 26th 2013
The PMBus Specification Working Group has released the PMBus 1.3 specification proposal for adopter review. The updated specification adds features and improves performance of PMBus 1.2 and adds AVS Bus (Part III). If the Working Group achieves its goals, the new specification will complete its review process and be approved ...

Fault Management Architecture

Michael Jones - Applications Engineer Jul 11th 2013
I recently had some enquiries into using PMBus communication to manage faults vs. built-in fault management. The question was two fold: what is the impact of using PMBus to make fault-off decisions, and what can be done to build system wide fault logs? Before I dig into these two uses of PMBus, let’s consider what is ...