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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

Hot-swap circuitry is only necessary when you actually do hot-swapping. From what I understood from the first post, the system is powered on after the boards have been inserted, so a hot-swap circuit won't help.

As FvM said (and it was his assumption that was right, not mine ;) ) the only viable way is to fix the power supply. Any other correction such as a soft start on each board is just like a patch made with strings and duct tape. It may work on the short term but it's just asking for trouble on the long run.