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16 years ago

FPGA 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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16 years ago

I have never seen the FPGA temperature jump very quickly... it is usually a slow steady rise. If this is the case it is probably a short or contention on a IO pin..

We usually have a temperature monitoring chip on our boards and configure the temp alert signal to un-configure the FPGA... this may help protect your devices..