One more item to list to the many good suggestions offered: Make sure that you don't have a power sequencing problem during shut-down as well as power on. As it is during power up / power down your device fails, I would go after the power sequencing, VRM overshoot first. Steve. On 6/7/2013 5:38 AM, Sam Pete wrote: > Hi Friends, > I am working on a medical board which has multi-core CPU along with other > peripherals. > we are getting into some issue that CPLD is getting blown out during power > cycle or sometimes during reset. > out of 210 boards we produced, we have 3 boards exhibiting this issue. The FA > report from CPLD vendor says electrical over-stress... > The board is not having any hotswap peripherals.... CPLD has 2.5V and 3.3V > banks, 3.3V Core/IO supply comes up first then 2.5V. > We have gone thru all sorts of checks, negative tests etc., to reproduce this > issue and we were unsuccessful.... > Does anybody faced similar issues earlier? Appreciate if you can provide some > clues... > > thanks > Sam > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from si-list: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field > > or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list > > For help: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field > > > List forum is accessible at: > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list > > List archives are viewable at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list > > Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > > > -- Steve Weir IPBLOX, LLC 1580 Grand Point Way MS 34689 Reno, NV 89523-9998 www.ipblox.com (775) 299-4236 Business (866) 675-4630 Toll-free (707) 780-1951 Fax All contents Copyright (c)2013 IPBLOX, LLC. All Rights Reserved. This e-mail may contain confidential material. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all records and notify the sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List forum is accessible at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu