[hpsdr] ESD Terminations

[Philip Covington]

On 5/17/06, FRANCIS CARCIA <carcia at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> Hi All you smart guys,
> May this lurker grasshopper suggest ESD terminations be added to all FPGA
> pins leaving a module. 100 K to ground will work fine. I've seen production
> people blow a number of FPGAs due to ESD by improper handling. How many hams
> own a static strap? We found this type of failure was easy to detect....just
> check to see if the FPGA is warm and you could bet money it was zapped. Back
> under my rock. Frank WA1GFZ

Hi Frank,

Thanks for the suggestion.  Should be no problem to add.

73 de Phil N8VB

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