No, there’s not calculations that you do to find parameters. You simply need to vary them until you find ones that work.
If you want to work with a third party board, you’ll need to make the necessary connections (voltage, ground, shunt resistor, remove decoupling capacitors, etc). We’ve got a tutorial that does a voltage glitch attack on a third party dev board: Tutorial A9 Bypassing LPC1114 Read Protect - ChipWhisperer Wiki.
Alex