The list server on this list is incredibly sensitive to such minutia.  If I 
use the wrong return address, it ignores what I send, and does not even say 
anything about it.  Methinks it is far too picky.

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To: "Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 8:24 PM


> (I tried sending this yesterday but, because of a slight difference in my 
> return email address, it seems to have been quietly dropped by the server)
>
>
> The advice regarding the ceramic bypass capacitors is good as far as it
> goes, but, if your problem is a power supply which compensates slowly
> for load changes, you might try some bulk capacitance across the 3.3V
> input to the board as well (a large electrolytic). This should partly
> take up the initial changes in current so that the power supply has the
> time to respond and prevent serious falls and rises in the output
> voltage.
> If it is slow response in the supply, you should see the voltage spikes
> at its output not just near the FPGA.
> If adding bulk capacitance does not work, you may have to consider using a 
> better power supply to provide the 3.3V
>
>
>
> On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 15:39 -0800, Uwe Zimmermann wrote:
>> ...plenty of fast capacitors (ceramic, not electrolytic) close to the
>> supply pins of the chips, short and wide power lines...
>>
>>    Uwe.
>>
>>
>> > hi,
>> > here is a weered problem i stuck with developing a board of mine.
>> > it's a very heavy loaded board with many FPGA's on that "eat" a lot of
>> > power (100W)
>> > the problem is that those FPGA's do a heavy work once every 2msec wich
>> > creates power drop of about 0.2 volt.
>> > it results with the voltage looking like this:
>> > /\   ___/\   ___
>> >    \/         \/
>>
>> > where the mean voltage is 3.3V
>>
>> > anyone know how to deal with thease voltage dropout (thy cause
>> > malfunctioning of the curcit)
>>
>> > regars, Michael
>>
>>
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