With high-speed, high-density FPGA devices, maintaining good signal integrity is key to reliable, repeatable designs. Proper power bypassing and decoupling improves the overall signal integrity. With insufficient decoupling, power and ground voltages are affected by logic transitions and can cause operational issues. In addition, employing a distributed power architecture is one major solution to minimize power-supply voltage-excursions when powering FPGAs. In traditional power supplies, the AC/DC, and/or DC/DC converters are located in one place, and provide multiple output voltages that are distributed throughout the system. This design is termed a Centralized Power Architecture (CPA). The problem with the CPA comes when distributing low voltages at high current as the copper wiring or PCB track presents significant Ohmic losses.

