Max10 Board Design Question

[BSuma]

Hello,

I want to design an FPGA board using a Max10 FPGA device. I prefer to use a 10M02SCU169C8G device or similar because I do not need a lot of logic resources.

I am very familiar with PCB design and FPGA programming but never designed an FPGA board before.

Could you suggest a good place to start. What I need is a hardware design guide or a reference design for Max10 devices.

Datasheet given by Intel does not have any information on hardware design aspects.

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/hb/max-10/m10_datasheet.pdf

Best regards,

Buddika

[Deshi_Intel]

Hi Buddika,

You can refer to below Intel FPGA Max10 dev kit board as reference.

• https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/programmable/products/boards_and_kits/dev-kits/altera/max-10-fpga-development-kit.html

It contains some user manual doc and board schematic reference.

Thanks.

Regards,

dlim

[Deshi_Intel]

You may also want to check out below Max 10 pin connection guideline doc that provide guidance to how to to connect the FPGA pin on the board.

• https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/dp/max-10/PCG-01018.pdf

Thanks.

Regards,

dlim

[BSuma]

Hello dlim,

Thank you very much for the answer. From where can I find a datasheet that provide information specific to 10M02SCU169C8G chip? For example I want to find which pins are power, I/O, GND and JTAG of the particular chip and package. All I could find was a generic datasheet for the Max 10 family https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/hb/max-10/m10_datasheet.pdf

Best regards,

Buddika

[sstrell]

Device pin outs are here:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/programmable/support/literature/lit-dp.html#max-10

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[BSuma]

Hello,

This helps. Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Buddika

[Deshi_Intel]

Yup, that's the link where you can check out your FPGA pin function.

Normally I prefer to download the excel version of pinout file for ease of editing

Regards,

dlim

[BSuma]

Thanks dlim

[Deshi_Intel]

Hi Buddika,

Alright, hopefully everything goes well with your project development.

For now, I am setting this case to closure.

Feel free to file new forum case if you still have enquiry in future.

Thanks.

Regards,

dlim