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I wish it was as easy as a failed power supply. The FPGA has stopped working but the power supply is functional. Terasic has indicated that I must have zapped it with static. That is the easy response to any failed chip. Just want them to honor their warranty like any reputable US company would do.
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Did you provide this sort of debugging summary to Terasic? I can understand them refusing to replace a board damaged by the pin assignments error above, but I would hope that given a detailed failure analysis that you would be able to convince them it was not your fault.
How about making a bargain with them - "Look, I'll buy a new board, and send you this old one. If you can determine the failure issue, and determine that it was not my fault, please reimburse me for the purchase of the new board".
Yeah, I know, given a bad experience, its not like you want to buy a second bad experience ...
What features did the DE1 have that you wanted to use? The Arrow BeMicro Cyclone V and MAX 10 boards are low-cost and good-enough for a lot of FPGA development.
Cheers,
Dave
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