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12 years ago

FPGA - Unusual heating . why ?

I am using Cyclone III FPGA Starter kit which uses EP3C25F324 FPGA. As soon as I power on my board, it is getting heated up rapidly in about 3 seconds. I am not even able to touch the FPGA ,...
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12 years ago

It is not normal. The factory default pof does not generate much heat. Is this the first time the board is powered up?

If not, could it be possible that the flash was overwritten with bad pof? If the pof has incorrectly assigned pins, contention with other components would cause it to heat up. Revert it to the default if so.