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Honored ContributorFake FPGA chips - or not?
Recently I have bought several Cyclone III chips, and before soldering them, noticed that new chips are different from those I was buying for almost a decade. Here's the pic attached. New FPGA ...
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Honored ContributorAltera's usual answer to those questions is that you need to buy the components from approved distributors, that will guarantee the components are genuine. If you bought them from a brooker, you are on your own unfortunately.
