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19 years ago

cyclone III power

Another question. If you look at the Cyclone 3 static power spec in the chart on their web site, it's hard to tell how they pulled 50% out of that. I'm using a relatively small cyclone 2 chip (2C8 in...
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19 years ago

Guano Girl,

Note that at the low densities the static power isn't much lower than Cyclone II. The big savings in static power come at the larger densities. There may also be some differences in how Cyclone II and Cyclone III burn static power as temperatures increase - once the Cyclone III EPE has been updated for I-temp.