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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

Hello arvindk, we had a similar problem with ARRIA II GX EP2AGX65DF25C6 (after power up we found VCCA_PLL(2.5V) pins shorted to GND). We had two pieces of FPGA in Altera Failure Analysis Center in Malaysia and they said us, that we damage the die of lidless FCBGA package(bottom corner) by mounting a heat-sink with push pins. Do you use a heat-sink?