Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!69.80.99.23.MISMATCH!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 22:09:36 +0000 From: John Larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: +48 precharge Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 15:09:34 -0700 Organization: highland technology Message-ID: References: <02210jhti2lc71037fh4q9sbs1ved2oc63@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.1/32.783 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 53 X-Trace: sv3-nCq4FHAl8xkOkCUPX+R0tfdhrfK8bBedoPKg5HWld9z5c969ebZyBOYdp9qtc652mstauTIYIAEj0zS!rdMGbU4P9frHoXZwwuOUBAQgpPEJFDEvlvkxhdD9Tapn0gDXIes+1zqxSJbHxgVm6SDWKSHUaj2x!ZUbfBw== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3238 On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 20:58:22 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs wrote: >Joe Gwinn wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:14:57 -0700, John Larkin >> wrote: >> >>> >>> We have a board that tends to blow up. >>> >>> It has a couple of isolated dc/dc converters, gate driver chips and >>> big mosfet full-bridges driving transformers. The gate drivers get >>> their inputs from an FPGA. >>> >>> The probelm is that the +48 volts to the h-bridges comes up at power >>> turn-on, but the FPGA is configured some minutes later, after Linux >>> boots up. And I don't entirely trust the FPGA outputs meanwhile. >>> Possibly never. >>> >>> After designing many complex fixes, a simple fix is to precharge the >>> module's +48 rail gently, and slam it on hard after everything is >>> verified stable. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> The one-shot gets its I'M OK trigger from the FPGA, which can only >>> happen if the FPGA is working, I hope. >> >> Can you require significant net charge transfer on a short period of >> time from the FPGA before the one-shot will trigger? >> >> Joe Gwinn >> > >There are any number of ways to reject FPGA zombie behavior. The >retriggerable one-shot is pretty simple. > >Another fairly simple one would be making the processor wait to receive a >specific message from the FPGA, e.g. “Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has >landed.” > >Cheers > >Phil Hobbs The Efinix FPGAs are primitive, which is usually good, but their i/o's can do tricky things. I want a tiny SPI-interfaced chip that outputs a 1 when the proper 32-bit code is entered. Or 256.