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14 years ago

SSN and reserve pins as ground

Hi everyone, I started doing SSN analysis on my preliminary designs and I found that I had problems with my standard PCI signals (3.0V) creating SSN on other 3.0V I/Os and vice versa. I tr...
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14 years ago

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I know that we ran into some problems with the PCI (in the Virtex-5 FPGA) when connected to some specific backplane PCB, it is possible that this was an SSN problem.

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What type of backplane? CompactPCI or regular PCI?

Cheers,

Dave