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17 years ago

Cyclone III health status

Hi! While measuring the voltage on an output pin of my Cyclone III starter board, I slipped off and produced a short curcuit to a 12V output pin. Now the FPGA is getting really hot (burning my ...
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17 years ago

Your finger did a good job of telling you the status of the chip ... The cost of a new board is less then all the trouble you could be facing trying to use one that has been half burned up. Next time use a sharp pin on the test lead so you can't touch 2 pins at the same time.

Al