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15 years ago

Counterfeit Device? EP3C16Q240C8

I started ringing out the pins on our EP3C16Q240C8 we bought through a broker since they are not programming/coming out of reset. Starting with pin 8 on a virgin device, I'm ringing out the gr...
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15 years ago

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Duh, found the problem - schematic was a copy & paste from an old Cyclone design which had the VCCA pins tied at 1.2V. Will change to 2.5V.

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Added 2.5V, Master and Slave Active Serial devices now working.