3.1 PowerMonitor

PolarFire Evaluation Kit board comes with power monitoring solution, implemented using the on-board SmartFusion A2F 200 device and the PowerMonitor application. The PowerMonitor application connects to the power monitoring program running on the A2F 200 device to measure power. For more information about PowerMonitor, see PolarFire FPGA Evaluation Kit User Guide.

On the host PC, download the Microchip PowerMonitor application from the following location: PolarFire Evaluation Kit PowerMonitor.

After the download is completed, follow the instructions in the installation wizard to install the PowerMonitor application.

To measure the power, perform the following steps:
  1. On the host PC desktop, click Start and select PowerMonitor.
  2. The following figure shows the COMPort SetUp dialog box. Select the highest COM port from the drop-down and click Connect.
    Figure 3-1. COMPort Setup

The PowerMonitor application successfully connects to the board and starts displaying the Core Fabric (VDD) power, Fabric PLL (VDD25) power, Transceiver Core (VDDA) power, and Transceiver PLL (VDDA25) power.

The following figure shows the total power consumed by the device is at 1.25G.

Figure 3-2. Power Usage at 1.25G

The following figure shows the total power consumed by the device is at 2.5G.

Figure 3-3. Power Usage at 2.5G

The following figure shows the total power consumed by the device is at 5G.

Figure 3-4. Power Usage at 5G
Table 3-3. Transceiver Power
S.NoLane RateTransceiver Power (W)Total Power (W)
11.250.0310.186
22.50.0350.195
350.0410.209

This concludes Dynamic Reconfiguration of XCVR and CCC.