The foundation of board design is power estimation, which determines thermal, power delivery, and decoupling network requirements. Power estimation ideally constrains the design in the Vivado® tools or Vitis™ environment to ensure a correct board design. Use the Versal® ACAP Power Design Manager (PDM) tool to estimate power requirements. For more information, see the following resources:
- Power Design Manager User Guide (UG1556)
- Seven Steps to an Accurate Worst-Case Power Analysis using the Xilinx Power Estimator (XAPP1348)
- Power page on the Xilinx website
- Power Design Manager (PDM) tool (download at www.xilinx.com/power) page on the Xilinx website
Note: You can migrate existing
Zynq®
UltraScale+™ MPSoC designs to the Versal ACAP PDM
tool. However, ensure that your design takes advantage of the Versal ACAP architectural blocks to maximize efficiency in your
design.