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8 years ago

MAX10 10M08SAE144I7G Not Working

Do wee need to solder the bottom copper pad to GND in order fpga to start working? We build 5 boards with proper oven soldering, copper pad soldered to GND. Only one board survived and working pro...
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8 years ago

Hello,

it is said, into the pinout files (as a foot note) :

*"(2) The E144-pin package has an exposed ground pad at the bottom of the package. The exposed ground pad is used for electrical connectivity and not for thermal purposes. You must connect the exposed ground pad to the ground plane of the PCB."

I admit that there are better locations to write this "quite important" information (datasheet, handbook ?) !

Jerome.