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Honored ContributorWhat destroys an FPGA ?
I have managed to destroy two different boards, over 6 months. And still can't quite seem to figure out what I did wrong. My most recent is a Cyclone III board where "My First FPGA" design no ...
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Honored ContributorActually, I managed to destroy the JTAG configuration port in the Cyclone on one of my old development boards and I'm certain that ESD was the culprit. It was weird because the rest of the chip was fine and could still configure via the eeprom configuration chip, just the JTAG port was dead to my Byte Blaster.
