6–20 Chapter 6: I/O Features in Cyclone IV Devices
I/O Banks
Cyclone IV Device Handbook, March 2016 Altera Corporation
Volume 1
Each Cyclone IV I/O bank has a VREF bus to accommodate voltage-referenced I/O standards. Each
VREF
pin is the reference
source for its V
REF
group. If you use a V
REF
group for voltage-referenced I/O standards, connect the
VREF
pin for that group to
the appropriate voltage level. If you do not use all the V
REF
groups in the I/O bank for voltage-referenced I/O standards, you
can use the
VREF
pin in the unused voltage-referenced groups as regular I/O pins. For example, if you have SSTL-2 Class I
input pins in I/O bank 1 and they are all placed in the
VREFB1N[0]
group,
VREFB1N[0]
must be powered with 1.25 V, and the
remaining
VREFB1N[1..3]
pins (if available) are used as I/O pins. If multiple V
REF
groups are used in the same I/O bank, the
VREF
pins must all be powered by the same voltage level because the
VREF
pins are shorted together within the same I/O bank.
1 When
VREF
pins are used as regular I/Os, they have higher pin capacitance than regular user I/O pins. This has an impact on
the timing if the pins are used as inputs and outputs.
f For more information about
VREF
pin capacitance, refer to the pin capacitance section in the Cyclone IV Device Datasheet chapter.
f For information about how to identify V
REF
groups, refer to the Cyclone IV Device Pin-Out files or the Quartus II Pin Planner
tool.
Table 6–4 and Table 6–5 summarize the number of
VREF
pins in each I/O bank for the Cyclone IV device family.
Table 6–4. Number of VREF Pins Per I/O Bank for Cyclone IV E Devices (Part 1 of 2)
Device
EP4CE6
EP4CE10
EP4CE15
EP4CE22
EP4CE30
EP4CE40
EP4CE55
EP4CE75
EP4CE115
I/O
Bank
(1)
144-EQPF
256-UBGA
256-FBGA
144-EQPF
256-UBGA
256-FBGA
144-EQPF
164-MBGA
256-MBGA
256-UBGA
256-FBGA
484-FBGA
144-EQPF
256-UBGA
256-FBGA
324-FBGA
484-FBGA
780-FBGA
324-FBGA
484-UBGA
484-FBGA
780-FBGA
484-UBGA
484-FBGA
780-FBGA
484-UBGA
484-FBGA
780-FBGA
484-FBGA
780-FBGA
1 111111222222111444444422233333
2 111111222222111444444422233333
3 111111222222111444444422233333
4 111111222222111444444422233333
5 111111222222111444444422233333
6 111111222222111444444422233333
7 111111222222111444444422233333