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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 would expect a fair margin between rated maximum junction temperature, which surely matters for keeping e.g. the timing specification, and damage of the chip. The latter should be considerably above 125 °C. So I guess, that something dramatic happened to your circuit, e.g. a power supply was running wild. Or a previous existing FPGA defect.