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Old 06-26-2009, 12:31 AM
Ed McGettigan
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Default Re: New feauture in Spartan-6 FPGA's: SELF DESTRUCT !!

Antti wrote:
> Bitstreams must not contain a sync word followed by all 1’s. This
> condition might
> cause damage to the device.
>
> Is this an feature or bug? should this go into ERRATA and be fixed
> ASAP??
>
> Antti


This has been confirmed to be an error in the document and will be
updated in the next revision.

It is possible to damage an FPGA with a badly corrupted bitstream, but
it takes more than a sync word followed by ones to do this.

Ed McGettigan
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