7152 - EIO for Nexus FPGAs: What does EIO function mean in the pinout file and the purpose of the pins?
'EIO' function mentioned in the pinout file refers to 'Early I/O Release' enhanced configuration function.
Our Nexus device supports this feature to allow the I/O that reside in the I/O Banks on the left and right of the device to release earlier so that customer systems have minimal disruption at the beginning of bitstream processing.
This feature is enabled by setting the EARLY_IO_RELEASE preferences to ON in Radiant Device Constraint Editor.
For more information on this topic, you can refer to our user guide FPGA-TN-02099, "sysCONFIG User Guide for Nexus Platform", Chapter 5.5: