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15 years ago

FPGA is hot

I'm using EP1C6Q240 FPGA, after programming it , the current for 3V3 was about 400mA, working OK, after several weeks, the current went to about 800mA and FPGA was getting hot, but it's still working...
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15 years ago

shorted output pins means pins connected to ground or a logic output in the external circuit, but driven in the FPGA unintentionally, e.g. due to wrong or incomplete pin assignment.

I experienced, that the setting of configuring unused pins as output, that has been a default with previous Quartus versions, increased the risk of getting unintentionally shorted output pins.