When using Intel Agilex® 7 devices, you may observe a glitch on PWRMGT_SCL and PWRMGT_SDA pins during device power-up. Depending on your board design and power regulator, the glitch may trigger a NACK condition to the Intel Agilex® 7 device or voltage regulator, which will cause the Intel Agilex® 7 device to fail configuration.
When this occurs, you will see the following SDM status when captured according to AN 936: Executing SDM Commands via JTAG Interface:
State: 0xf0020032
Error location : 0x00001800
Error detail : 0x00200008
Configuration fail!
Major code: 0xF002
Fail to access QSPI or PMBus voltage regulator (VID).
Minor code: 0x0032
PMF initialization error, check your PMBus connection between SDM_IO and power regulator.
Subsequent reconfiguration without a power cycle is successful.
Note that the PWRMGT_SCL and PWRMGT_SDA signals are in an undetermined state during device power-up and power-down. It is therefore recommended to hold voltage level translators (used for the PMBus interface between the FPGA and voltage regulator) disabled by default to ensure that bus contention, excessive currents, or oscillations do not occur during FPGA power supply rail ramp-up and power down.
This problem is fixed starting with the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software version 21.3.