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Occasional ContributorMAX10 weak pull-ups and leakage current
I'm seeing significant impact from enabling weak pull-ups on pins other than the one I am using.
The specific case is as follows:
Device 10M02SCU169C8G.
In this design I have C1 and D1 connected together. I saw them pulling up with approximately 160uA when tri-stated. I.e. I see 0.8v on the pin if I use a 5K resistor to pull to ground.
I noticed that if I disable the weak-pull up on C2 then the leakage current on C1/D1 vanishes. Note that in my design C2 is actually an unused pin, the weak pull-up was on by default by the 'as input tri-stated with weak pull-up' option for unused pins.
Is this a known issue, perhaps related to the other half of a differential pair?
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AminT_IntelRegular Contributor
Hello,
This may happen because of leakage current in Max 10 device. There is a detail about tristated I/O pin on page 9 from this link: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/hb/max-10/m10_datasheet.pdf
Thanks.
foftI saw that, but its talking about +/-10uA. 160uA is a fair bit higher. It does say that the 10uA may be exceeded when using the clamp diodes. In fact that isn't what I see here. I see it happen not with the clamp diodes but the weak pull up on another pin that I'm not using.
- AminT_Intel
Hello,
May I know which version of Quartus are you using and if you can share you sample design.
Thanks.
