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Martin57
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5 years ago

MAX10 10M04 Flash Problems

We are using the 10M04SCE144C8G. After about 1 year in the field, we now have already 2 returns from our customer -- "FPGA not booting". When reading out the actual flash-content, we could see 1 sect...
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JohnT_Altera
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5 years ago

Hi,


The reason is that the flash will not be accidentally erase on certain location and there is no way for user to write a ''1' into the flash as only write '0' bit is possible for this flash. Based on my calculation, the address provided should be the starting address of the page.


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    Martin57
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    5 years ago

    Hi John,

    thanks for your response!

    But, might there be other reasons for this failure?

    -- "half programmed" Flash, due to timing/voltage during programming, so it looses one complete page-data?

    -- in our design, the pin "config_sel" is strapped to "1", and we are programming "single image"