Forum Discussion

Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
19 years ago

Checking FPGA for LE damage

Hello, We have a good reason to believe that an ACEX 1K FPGA on one of our board has some physical damage, i.e. some malfunctioning logic elements. Is there any standard way to test this ? I ca...
Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
19 years ago

If you know which LEs may be damaged then a simple design can be used to toggle the LE and you can use SignalTap II to observe the results. Similarly you can create a shift register as large as the device (or break up in rows if you wish). Thirdly, you can file a service request at https://mysupport.altera.com/eservice/ and request an ERMA to be conducted for failure analysis for your device.