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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

As said, exposed ground pad connection is mandatory. But I really wonder how you managed to make so many boards fail. E144 package is quite robust, I didn't yet see a single failure by inappropriate processing. Either you have exceeded the peak solder temperature considerably, there are discontinuities (e.g. by bad via plating) in your PCB or you missed to connect necessary MAX10 signals.