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12 years ago

EP1C12 high standby power consumption

Hello everyone! I was a little bit surprised when I measured the standby (unconfigured state) current consumption of an EP1C12 device's VCCINT power rail. It was 44 mA. (VCCINT=1.5V, all VCCIO=...
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12 years ago

I know Altera struggled with inrush on some of the earlier family members. (I know the original Stratix has this issue)

Does the current drop once the device is configured?

If I remember properly the issue was internal contention, due to the rams powering up in a random state. That could be why the spec has such a large window between typical and worse-case.

Pete