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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

Please help with the error led turned red

Hi everyone, I think I just made a big mistake. I was trying to measure signals from HSMC port of Cyclone V using oscilloscope, and I suppose I touched two pins with a probe at the same time. This...
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12 years ago

Doesn't sound good.

I've blown a few pins on FPGAs in my time and each time I've been lucky and got away with just damaging the pin in question. The rest of the FPGA has been fine. In your case, it appears you have done more damage than this and potentially blown the whole chip. Which isn't good news.