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13 years ago

What is mean of fast/slow 0C/85C model?

There are three models in STA, it seems there is little reference from Altera to explain what is the mean of these and which is most important (I guess this depends on where the FPGA chip is used). S...
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13 years ago

actually I used to heat up my fpga(startix 4) to 100C with hot air gun then stop, switch off fans and then it goes up till 130C, stays there for minutes and still passed all my bit-true suite of tests(clk at 368MHz!). I did that over and over trying to reproduce some claimed issue. Very impressive devices but looks like some thing is no longer right. It keeps its configuration for some time then switches off dead.