System management is used to describe the many tasks and functions required to start-up, configure, maintain, and power-down a system, while minimizing costs and maximizing utility and reliability. These tasks are common across a wide variety of application boards especially where large datapath FPGAs and ASSPs are utilized. As process nodes shrink a device, these devices are able to integrate more functionality into a single device. For example, Intel®’s Arria® 10 FPGAs integrate up to 1.15 M logic elements (LEs) and 96 transceivers running up to 28.1 gigabytes (GBs) for an unprecedented level of integration. At the same time, to support these capabilities, an Arria® 10 FPGA has nine power rails that must be sequenced, and monitored to maximize system performance and operational uptime. These application boards with high-performance datapath FPGAs, CPUs, and/or ASSP can easily cost thousands of dollars, a significant investment by both developer and system provider. To protect this investment, monitoring and controlling board-level environmental conditions is critical. Operating a system out of recommended conditions can not only affect performance, but can reduce system reliability, life expectancy, and even lead to catastrophic board failure. The service providers who use these complex boards need to maximize the investment and, ultimately, operational up time. A system must be able to run a self-diagnostic test and determine that the board is operational. A good system management design will be able to indicate the failure mode of the board and/or system so that any service call can be very targeted and efficient to minimize down time. An intelligent system will be able to predict when a failure is imminent and alert the service provider before the failure, and eliminate system down time altogether. A robust system management design incorporates a wide variety of tasks in both the analog and digital domain including power rail management, environmental condition management, and analytics for diagnostics and prognostics. An instant-on mixed-signal FPGA, like Intel®’s MAX® 10 FPGAs, offers the right mix of analog and digital resources in a single chip.