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Cyclone 10 power-up latches up
As far from my concern, I am not aware of any registers within the JTAG part of the chip that can be read before the configuration happened.
How about the conf_done signal? Is it high or not after the nstatus remain low? Can you share the snapshot of the signals?
Regards,
Aqid
- PhilipJ4513 years ago
New Contributor
Hi,
once again thank you for your time and interest in my problem.
The conf_done line also remains low. In fact I think all the pins of the chip (except for the power pins of course) appear to be low and sinking current which is why I thought it might be some kind of problem with the chip latching up during power-up.
I have added an image that shows the rise of the 3 power rails at power up:
Orange is 3V3
Blue is 2V5
Purple is 1V2
Do they look ok to you?
I think I read something about "if an IO pin has a high signal on it, before power is applied to the chip this may cause a latch-up". Do you know if this is correct?
Many of the IO pins of the FPGA are connected to other devices in the design and I have not checked all pins to ensure that the above does not happen. The 3 power lines for the FPGA are themselves derived from a 5V PSU and it is possible that other devices which power directly from this 5V (although with 3V3 IO) may "come up" faster than the FPGA's own power lines.
Should I be concerned for this?
Kind regards
PhilipJ
- GLees3 years ago
Contributor
I had a similar-sounding problem with the MAX10 which has a known bug; some outputs are driven during configuration. The work-around was to check the box labelled "Enable real-time ISP to allow background programming when available" in the programming tool. Maybe this will work for you.