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SShan15
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7 years ago
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Altera Cyclone V SoC chip overheating

I was working on Altera Cyclone V De10 Nano board. Everything seems to be working fine until I manually probed the JP1-GPIO pins to measure the waveform across the pins. After this, the board seemed...
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    Ahmed_H_Intel1
    7 years ago
    Hi Shiva, I recommend you to use deferential prob and to attach the prob first before powering the board without touching any pin by mistake. It seems a user error, The board was working fine until you manually probed some pins then the issue appeared. Please take care while touching any pin while running as some pins are so sensitive (mainly the feedback pin of power devices and some digital pins). Regards.
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imarz1
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7 years ago

I think it is normal for it to be warm. This is probably one reason why they have the plastic guard on top of it.

I have same board, and it is always warm, and it is working just fine.