Tool Models And Optimizes Power Supplies For FPGAs

Accelerating the design of multiple load power supplies for Altera, and Xilinx FPGAs, WEBENCH FPGA Power Architect unfurls as the industry’s first design tool to model and optimize power supplies for FPGAs in minutes. The tool incorporates detailed supply requirements of more than 130 of the latest FPGAs from Altera and Xilinx. To begin a design, the user selects a FPGA and the tool automatically populates the unique power requirements, identifying core and I/O options for every potential load of that array. Once tuned by the designer, WEBENCH collects all the loads and creates multiple power supply architectures as options for driving the FPGA and the system. NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORP., Santa Clara, CA. (800) 272-9959.