Power Supply and Power Distribution System (PDS)

Design, verify, and simulate your PDS.

With a noisy or under-rated power supply, a circuit board is an expensive piece of garbage.

References for FPGA Families
Family	Primary Reference
Virtex™- 5 FPGA	Virtex-5 PCB Designer's Guide
Virtex-4 FPGA	Virtex-4 PCB Designer's Guide
Virtex-II, Virtex-II Pro	XAPP623
All Spartan™-FPGA devices	XAPP623

Documentation

For power distribution system (PDS) design and bypass capacitors, the Virtex™-4 User Guide presents a step-by-step process for designing and verifying a PDS.

Tools

Selected vendors of EDA tools for PDS design and simulation are listed in the Virtex-4 User Guide.