Re: Pull up resistors on Spartan 3 mode pins

Peter Alfke wrote:

Jim, please give us the benefit of the doubt, that we are not totally
stupid.

Where did I claim that ?

The mode pins are of interest at the very beginning of the
configuration process.
That's obviously when the pull-ups are active.
I do not know when they are being de-activated, but trust us that they
are active when it matters.
We have 22 years experience in this technology, and have shipped many
hundreds of millions of FPGAs...
But you are right, there is always an opportunity for better
documentation.
Remember: This whole lengthy discussion never mentioned a technical
problem or malfunction, only a diversity of suggestions, all of them
correct.

Just to remind you - the audience, here is not you, Austin, Rickman, etc, ( we ALL know 'it works' ) but those in rickman's reference :

" But some people here ("here" my work, not "here" the newsgroup) just won't let go of the bone. They are insisting that the pins must be connected to Vaux directly because of what they were told a year ago."

ie they are saying to him : 'Prove it'.
He is asking for Xilinx to help him do that.

-jg



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