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15 years ago

FPGA Device lifetime

Hi everyone, I wonder how long a FPGA device can live. So far I used Cyclone III device, I have search for information, and I only found information about lifetime percentage of 10 years dev...
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15 years ago

It's possibly not the answer you like to get, but the lifetime expectancy can be only given as statistical number, based on MTBF respectively failure rates. The Altera Reliability Report contains all available data to calculate these quantities: http://www.altera.com/literature/rr/rr.pdf?gsa_pos=1&wt.oss_r=1&wt.oss=altera Reliability Report

You may need to get familiar with the standarized JEDEC test methods to understand the meaning of the report for your instruments lifetime calculation.