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15 years ago

CPLD EPM240T Serious Burn down!!

Hi,I met a very bad problem when I use CPLD EPM240T. (1) Environment : in this project,it have 10 IO board with EPM240T,all these board connected through one back board.Between these EPM240T,t...
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15 years ago

Even a short circuit of one or more output pins, although violating the maximum ratings, isn't usually causing catastrophic failure of the device. Thus I assume, that a serious problem of violated supply or input voltage ratings is present in your design.