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14 years ago

Safety in case of failure

I’m a safety engineer. I have a particular question. If the FPGA lost its power supply, all outputs are in low state “0”. But, for FPGA failure (by overheating, electrostatic discharge...
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14 years ago

If the FPGA fails then the outputs could be in any state since we don't know the nature of the failure.