Do old FPGA's decay? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Dec 2005

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Subject: Do old FPGA's decay?
   From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
   Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:07:31 -0800
     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org

But do old FPGA's just quietly go belly-up?  Or is there something about
the XC2064-50 that I'm in the dark about?  Are there any easy tests that I
can apply to confirm my suspicions?  

Not that I know of and I use them.   Years ago Tim gave me a bunch of 2064s 
and 3030s to learn FPGAs and I've used a bunch of them.  All of mine load
...
 from an eprom and I've had the eeprom that loads it
fail.  Like any device  it can fail though.

At power up it should have activity on the programming IO.

Allison