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Honored ContributorFPGA Thermal Burn out
I am using a FPGA EP3C25F324C8N on my board. I as conducting a thermal testing on this board. When the ambient temperature of the chamber was 42deg C, the FPGA case temperature was 62degC.. Suddenly ...
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Honored ContributorDid you use the power estimator tool? What was the temperature calculated by the tool?
Others factors can heat the fpga, like Unused pins drive GND and have VCC on hardware connected at this pins. Take a look in this option on Device Setting of quartus.
