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JunL
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2 years ago

FPGA Failure

Hi I am Jun Lee from Nanowave Technologies. This post is mainly for Intel/altera support! NANOWAVE is having recent anomalies with Intel/altera FPGAs type Cyclone III. The failure modes observed w...
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2 years ago

Hi,

Do you have any updates to share about this issue?


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    JunL
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    2 years ago

    Hi,

    Please see my reply below:

    In the one case with sporadic resetting NIOS softcore processor, we had no time to test other, more simplistic code, as you suggest. But the code is in use on several hundred units and fully tested.

    In the other case, the NIOS softcore is not even starting and JTAG is not working.

    Again, both FPGAs are nominally new, just purchased and received from distributor and just populated onto the boards. Both worked and passed final testing, then were shipped to customer and showed the described anomalies. Looks like infant mortality, but needs further investigation of any damages inside the FPGA IC itself.