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13 years ago

Arria II EP2AGX45CU17C6N power up failure.

Hi all, I am using Arria II EP2AGX45CU17C6N FPGA in my PCIe interfacing card project, I had only one FPGA device mounted on PCB and power section. Power voltage rail on PCB board ...
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13 years ago

The only reasons I know of that could explain these kind of failures are ESD and an overshoot on the power supplies. Some DC/DC converters that are a bit overcompensated can overshoot at startup and supply a voltage that is over the expected value for a short time, and this can destroy the FPGA.