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4 years ago

FPGA outputs nothing

I have a custom made board with a MAX10 FPGA. I had this board working for about one year without issues. Last week I replaced the 10M04SCE144C8G old FPGA with a brand new 10M08SCE144I7G. I changed ...
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4 years ago

Did you recompile the Quartus project for the new device?

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    AAAAAAAAAA
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    4 years ago

    Yes, I did recompile the project after selecting the new device. I am suspecting of a fake device. I bought it in a random place in Hong Kong because of the shortage in all reliable distributors. However aesthetically it looks very nice and also the "autodetect" feature on the JTAG programmer does detect the correct device. What I cannot do is to program the flash memory.

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      jozephka99
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      4 years ago

      What do you mean by programming flash? Writing .pof or some manual things? Can you get output when programming with .sof?

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        4 years ago

        Yes, so if I select the `.sof` file I can click on the "program" button and after it does something Quartus says "success" with the green light. In this case, however, the FPGA does nothing, it is as if nothing was done. If I try also with the `.pof` file it says "failed" and I get `Error (209031): Device chain in Chain Description File does not match physical device chain -- expected 2 device(s) but found 1 device(s).`.

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      ak6dn
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      4 years ago

      ... I bought it in a random place in Hong Kong because of the shortage in all reliable distributors ...

      You answered your own question as to why your board is not working.