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14 years ago

Hot FPGA after design upload

Hello, I've developed a board with EP3C40F324 FPGA which includes National Ethernet PHY and two separate DDR memory chips connected to banks (3,4) and (7,8). These particular banks are powered 2.5...
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14 years ago

To explain the excessive power dissipation I would rather expect a more basic problem like shorted FPGA outputs. Series termination resistors should allow to probe the signals and check if all memory related signals are assigned and wired correctly.