3 Appendix: General Layout Design Practices

This chapter provides guidelines for the hardware board layout that incorporates PolarFire devices. Good board layout practices are essential to achieve the expected performance from PCBs and PolarFire devices. They help achieve high-quality and reliable results such as low-noise levels, signal integrity, impedance, and power requirements. The guidelines mentioned in this document act as a supplement to the standard board-level layout practices.

This chapter is intended for the readers who are familiar with the PolarFire FPGA chip, experience in digital board layout, and know about line theory and signal integrity.