AN 943: Thermal Modeling for Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGAs with the Intel® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator

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Date 3/29/2021
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4.2. Intel® Stratix® 10 Temperature Sensing

Each die in an Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA contains at least one digital thermal sensor (DTS) and one temperature sensing diode (TSD). Each DTS has no physical connection to device pins and must be read using temperature sensing software.

For information on temperature sensing software, refer to: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/hb/stratix-10/ug-s10-adc.pdf

The TSDs connect to pins on the device, to which you can connect to read, using external devices such as the Maxim Integrated MAX6581, MAX31730, or Texas Instrument TMP468. Both the DTS and TSD report the temperature of their physical location on the die, which may or may not be the hottest location on the die. For this reason, the PTC adds an offset value to each reading, to correct for the maximum temperature of the corresponding die. The offset values may vary, therefore you must specify which sensors the PTC is to use. (Versions of the PTC earlier than version 20.4 show the DTS offsets; therefore,if you require offset values for the TSDs, you must first port your design to the version 20.4 or later software.