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Old 02-04-2010, 10:04 AM
TSMGrizzly
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Default Re: Board layout for FPGA

Thanks for the input so far, guys!

I will have two SRAM chips and one parallel EEPROM in one memory
space, and one additional RAM chip in a separate memory space so I
know for sure that that one gets its own dedicated address/control/
data lines.
I was just wondering if the signal integrity would be hurt by extra
loading in chaining up the ones that are on the same bus, but I had a
hunch that at these speeds it wouldn't be such a big problem.

And probably I will be using 10ns RAMs (I haven't looked at the rise/
fall times though) and keeping them physically as close as I can get
them to the FPGA.. maybe about a centimeter away, tops.
Looking at this old Digilent Spartan 3 board I have kicking around, I
don't see any termination between the FPGA and the ISSI SRAMs on
there, but each chip has its own address and data lines.. I dunno if
that's good enough to use as an example or not though.

As for the supply voltages, I'll be using a Virtex II, but this is the
first time I have started to think about implementing my own board and
thus needing to worry about power supplies, and I seemed to remember
some of my dev boards in the past having a couple or three different
regulators on board, but I didn't really think much about it. Looking
at the datasheet though, you're right, Rick, it appears that I just
need a single 1.5V supply for core voltage, and 3.3V for VCC_aux and
all of my I/O. I should have checked that and had the numbers right
before asking, sorry about that.
So if I need power planes for both of these voltages, do they each
need their own layer or can I arrange it carefully in one layer?

Thanks again,

Steve
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