Description

76685 - Design Advisory, Versal ACAP, XPE - Power Supply Sequence Change

Release Date
2023-02-16
Revision
1.0 English

This Design Advisory covers Versal Devices. For more information on how to sign up to receive notifications of new Design Advisories, see (Xilinx Answer 18683)

For all Versal devices, starting in XPE 2021.2, the power sequence on the XPE Power Design Tab has moved the VCCO supply rails to ramp first within their respective power supply sequencing domain with some optimizations.

Under certain circumstances, some VCCOs can be shared with other rails in the sequence. Refer to Power Design Manager (PDM) (www.xilinx.com/pdm) for specific details and supported power rail consolidation in the Power Design Page.

Impact

If the required power sequence is not used, intermittent boot errors or hangs can occur during warm restarts (any restart that does not first perform a power cycle).

Warm restarts include but are not limited to the following use cases:
  • External POR_B pin assertion
  • Internal/External SRST
  • Watchdog timer reset
  • MultiBoot
  • Tandem boot
  • PLM Error management

For example, an error might occur during PLM when configuring hardened peripherals such as a DDRMC timeout or a GT address exception, indicating a timeout during configuration:

 

XPlmi_MaskPoll: Addr: 0xF6110008,  Mask: 0x10, ExpVal: 0x10, Timeout: 1000000 ...ERROR

Received Exception
MSR: 0x00000702, EAR: 0xF6890000, EDR: 0x00000000, ESR: 0x00000064,
R14: 0xF020CA78, R15: 0xF022F1C4, R16: 0x00000000, R17: 0xF0213DB4