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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

Is this a broken segment?

When I packed up the board it was fine and it passed tests but now it seems that one segment has a bad joint or something since it won't light up (it's the fourth one from the right): http://i.sta...
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13 years ago

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These things happen. It might need to be baked.

You could write some quick code to tie the output of that segment to a switch. It'll be on all the displays in that 4-pack but you'll know.

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Thank you for the reply. Could you elaborate a bit? I'm a newbie and I have some code that is supposed to control the segments but I have little hope of it working since it doesn't pass the test the board makes when it is turned on.

What does "baked" mean?