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Altera_Forum
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12 years agoEP1C12 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=...
Altera_Forum
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12 years agoThanks for the replies!
Yes, there is no problem with the device at all. It works as expected and it is configurable as well. We previously used EP1C6 devices on our boards and those chips consumed <10mA in standby. I know that EP1C12 devices are much more power hungry, but I did not expect as "high" value. I just wanted to ask others, because maybe I should start searching for some hardware errors. Thanks for the "random ram powering up" explanation, but it is a little bit strange that several EP1C12 consume approximately the same 44 mA value...