Virtex 4 deconfiguring itself ...

Mar 21, 2006 3 Replies

Hello,



We're currently working on a design running on a Virtex4 SX35. That design uses most of the resources of the FPGA (around 80% of the slices and 50% or the BRAMs/multipliers). We're working on the AVNET SX35 kit with a VGA extension card and a sdram expension card.



Depending of the datafiles we send, sometimes it completly deconfigure the FPGA ... done goes de-asserted and nothing is processing anymore ... But that behavior is not deterministric, sometimes it can process for one minute and then deconfigure, or sometimes it just can't even process 1 second without crashing ... Apparently the more "heavy" is the datastream, then faster it will crash.



Anyone would have an idea of what's going on there ?


Sylvain



Sounds like your design may be drawing more current than the the power supplies can provide. YOu might try monitoring the FPGA supply voltages.

I was thinking along similar lines as well.

-Isaac

Thanks to both of you.

That's what we were thinking and it's what we're investigating ... indeed that development board seems to have a 'weak' power supply ...

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