Intel® MAX® 10 FPGA Device Family Pin Connection Guidelines

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Date 5/27/2022
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Analog Input Pins

Note: Intel® recommends that you create an Intel® Quartus® Prime design, enter your device I/O assignments, and compile the design. The Intel® Quartus® Prime software will check your pin connections according to I/O assignment and placement rules. The rules differ from one device to another based on device density, package, I/O assignments, voltage assignments, and other factors that are not fully described in this document or the device handbook.
Table 6.  Analog Input Pins
Pin Name Pin Functions Pin Description Connection Guidelines
ADC[1..2]IN[1..16] I/O, Input

These multi-purpose pins support single-ended analog input or, bank does not support both analog and digital signals simultaneously. When not used as analog input pins, these pins can be used as any other digital I/O pins.

ADCIN[8] and ADCIN[16] pins support the prescalar feature.

For 10M08 and 10M16 devices, ADC1IN[1..8] pins are available for the single power supply devices and ADC1IN[1..16] pins are available for 10M08U324 devices. ADC1IN[1..16] pins are available for the dual power supply devices.

For 10M25 and 10M50 devices, ADC1IN[1..8] and ADC2IN[1..8] pins are available for both single and dual power supply devices.

All digital I/O pins will be tri-stated if any of these pins is configured as an analog input pin. For unused ADCIN pins, Intel recommends you to connect them to GND.

No parallel routing between analog input signals and I/O traces. The crosstalk requirement for analog to digital signal is -100 dB up to 2 GHz. Route the analog input signal adjacent to the REFGND.

Total RC value including package, trace, and driver parasitic values should be less than 42.4 ns. This is to ensure the input signal is fully settled during the sampling phase.

Low pass filter is required for each analog input pin. The filter ground reference is REFGND.

For details about the board design guidelines, refer to the Intel® MAX® 10 Analog to Digital Converter User Guide.

ADC_VREF Input Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) voltage reference input.

Tie the ADC_VREF pin to an external accurate voltage reference source. If you are not using the external reference, this pin is a no connect (NC).

No parallel routing between analog input signals and I/O traces. The crosstalk requirement for analog to digital signal is -100 dB up to 2 GHz.

For more information, refer to the Guidelines: Board Design for ADC Reference Voltage Pin section of the Intel® MAX® 10 Analog to Digital Converter User Guide.

ANAIN[1] Input This is a dedicated single-ended analog input pin for ADC1.

If this pin is not used, Intel recommends you to connect it to GND.

No parallel routing between analog input signals and I/O traces. The crosstalk requirement for analog to digital signal is -100 dB up to 2 GHz. Route the analog input signal adjacent to the REFGND.

Total RC value including package, trace, and driver parasitic values should be less than 42.4 ns. This is to ensure the input signal is fully settled during the sampling phase.

Low pass filter is required for each analog input pin. The filter ground reference is REFGND.

For details about the board design guidelines, refer to the Intel® MAX® 10 Analog to Digital Converter User Guide.

ANAIN[2] Input

This is a dedicated single-ended analog input pin for ADC2.

This pin is not available in each device density and package combination. For details, refer to the specific device pinout file.

If this pin is not used, Intel recommends you to connect it to GND. No parallel routing between analog input signals and I/O traces. The crosstalk requirement for analog to digital signal is -100 dB up to 2 GHz. The RC filter ground reference is REFGND.

Total RC value including package, trace, and driver parasitic values should be less than 42.4 ns. This is to ensure the input signal is fully settled during the sampling phase.

Low pass filter is required for each analog input pin. The filter ground reference is REFGND.

For more information, refer to the Intel® MAX® 10 Analog to Digital Converter User Guide.

REFGND Input This pin is the ADC ground reference pin for analog pins.

Intel recommends you to tie REFGND to the GND pin with an isolating ferrite bead for the best ADC performance.

If you are not using ADC, tie this pin directly to GND.