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17 years ago

Counterfeit Cyclone II in China market?

Hi, We have received a batch of boards from China (Shenzhen) that contains a Cyclone II (EP2C5Q208C7N) FPGA. Many of the boards fail with data corruption on external buses driven by the FPGA. W...
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17 years ago

Interesting issue, but IMO in this case, the usage of relabeled devices (the most common prob with asia based development) should not be the problem. A bad pin is a bad pin. But could it be possible that devices, which failed the end test in the fab were not destroyed but came to the market again?