Intel® Stratix® 10 MX FPGA Development Kit User Guide

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Date 6/15/2020
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4.9.6. Thermal Limitations and Protection

The Intel® Stratix® 10 MX FPGA development kit is designed to operate in a typical laboratory environment with an ambient temperature of approximately 25 °C. The cooling solution provided with the development kit allows sufficient cooling for the board to operate up to a maximum power consumption of 243 W under this environment.

A MAX1619 device is connected to the Intel® Stratix® 10 MX FPGA internal temperature diode to continuously monitor the FPGA internal temperature. In the meantime, a dedicated FPGA TSD real-time monitor solution under ~\ip\onchip_sensors\ is added to each transceiver or EMIF example design to monitor the temperatures of both FPGA core and each transceiver tile.

Based on the data from both MAX1619, and the Intel® Stratix® 10 MX FPGA will run at its maximum speed whenever any temperature is over 60 °C or immediately power off the board whenever the temperature crosses 100 °C.

CAUTION:
Remember to unplug the power supply when the board is powered off when the temperature crosses 100 °C. Plug the power supply back again to ensure that the board can be normally turned on/off again.