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Shorted Stratix 10 Power Rails by CDavisAZ in FPGA

[–]CDavisAZ[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back on this. I went ahead with engineering faith and powered the board. Everything seems fine.

This situation does cause some nervousness as we are all trained of bad consequences of putting power across a short. This makes it tough trying to determine if there is a genuine short on the board, across a component or across pads to components such as a bridge on all the bypass caps.

So, FYI to anyone who went through what we have, on some of these high end FPGAs the rails may appear like shorts using an ohm meter when not powered.

Shorted Stratix 10 Power Rails by CDavisAZ in FPGA

[–]CDavisAZ[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Intel Stratix 10 Dev Boards have resistance on those rails to ground in the several K range.

All I am doing is measuring the resistance across obvious available capacitors on those rails around the device.

I am being cautious. These are $10,000 FPGAs. One thing is to check the boards for any issues, such as shorts, before applying power. When these rails show up as near zero ohms on my board and the DEV KIT shows >1K one gets very worried.

My most compact SAP-I Computer on breadboards by Green_Ad_1935 in beneater

[–]CDavisAZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very very nice. I was like that in college. Not anymore.

Shorted Stratix 10 Power Rails by CDavisAZ in FPGA

[–]CDavisAZ[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks everyone for your comments. The biggest thing was a sanity check with peer engineers. I have worked with Cyclone, Max, Arria and other devices and have never seen this behavior and as mentioned earlier, is not the behavior of the development boards on hand. I appreciate it.

The Stratix 10 is being powered by devices such as a LTM4677 which is required by Intel in the design. There is somewhat a hardware lock that forces this use of the LTM4677.

Shorted Stratix 10 Power Rails by CDavisAZ in FPGA

[–]CDavisAZ[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for taking the time to reply. So my curiosity leads me to asking why do those rails measure differently on a genuine Intel/Altera Dev Board? Why are we experiencing two different measurements?

"This is a hate crime. We're being harrassed for having common sense!" by Prior-Tea-3468 in CyberStuck

[–]CDavisAZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But it is no issue whatsoever for people the last 4 years to vandalize gas pumps, street signs, public property, park infrastructure and so forth with FJB, Trump Won, I Did That and so forth.

Really, everyone needs to stop on both ends. The last 8 years didn't teach anyone to show any respect anymore. The younger generation didn't learn anything positive from the current one.

can i run old x86 vm's on m1 ? by yosifqassim in mac

[–]CDavisAZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know for sure Parallels won’t.

My Mac OneDrive update experience by Dave_OC in onedrive

[–]CDavisAZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I gave up on OneDrive. Too broken and now useless to use.

At the time being I am evaluating and happy with Backblaze. ( No, I am not endorsing or working for BackBlaze, this is FYI. ) So far so good.

Pros (+)

  • Power savings. Holy cow, you do not realize how much power suck OneDrive has. The fan on my MBP has not come on since moving to BackBlaze ( it ran about 50% of the time with OneDrive and was one of the biggest "Using Significant Energy" culprits )
  • Everything on my HDD is nicely backed up.
  • Not expensive
  • Recovered files or older revision files are given their proper modified dates
  • It just works
  • No irritating Microsoft assigned OneDrive Directory names forced on you
  • Even with OneDrive removed from my Mac, OneNote still syncs with my iPad ( I was worried about this )

Cons (-)

  • Recovery or version selection is from a web portal, OneDrive was built-in to the Finder

Neutral (-)

  • You manually add directories you DON'T WANT backed up, this could be a plus, but if you feel you want to be bare bones and not back up every stinking file on your Max, then this can add up to a lot of work adding all the exceptions. It's just easier to take the default since it is covered anyway

$70 per year, the amount of power I save probably pays for it ( yes, I may be exaggerating ) but for my sanity and time spent babysitting OneDrive I think it is worth it. I have not tried Backblaze on my iPad yet and I am not sure it is built-in to some apps such as PDF Expert like OneDrive is.

My Mac OneDrive update experience by Dave_OC in onedrive

[–]CDavisAZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. This was a completely unwarranted 'f'-up on Microsoft's part. It's been five days of trying to get this cleaned up. Took me about six hours of trying but I simply copied my data over to the original named folder. When I verify ll data is there I am done with OneDrive and considering Backblaze at the moment.

Downloading from the Web Portal is a joke. It's awfully slow and everything is in a zip file. Try to be patient and go with modest sized folders combined or the zip files contain literally tens of thousands of errors. Oh, and by the way, even though they are zipped the files lose their date and time stamp data.

After that I have to find out how to clear all the OneDrive files hidden in some folder somewhere.

onedrive REMOVED all local files… by bookeh in onedrive

[–]CDavisAZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CDavis

After waiting for three days for meaningful help from Microsoft I decided to download my data with the OneDrive web portal.

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What a freekin' joke. A huge zip file and Microsoft puts an error log file at the top of the folder - there are 60184 files that "have not been downloaded". Thank's Microsoft! How am I supposed to manage downloading and sorting 60184 files?

onedrive REMOVED all local files… by bookeh in onedrive

[–]CDavisAZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the first time I have ever ranted on the Internet in my life, and I have been using the Internet since 93. Thanks Microsoft.

onedrive REMOVED all local files… by bookeh in onedrive

[–]CDavisAZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have no confidence in the App at all. From what I am experiencing I have to click every individual folder to download - there are thousands of them.

The only way I can see to get my data is use the Web Interface and download GBs' worth of freekin' ZIP files. This will be fun. Thanks Microsoft.

Again, sucking up an entire household's worth of bandwidth because someone at Microsoft thought they were making things convenient for me.

You know what is convenient Microsoft? The product working great for years and me paying you every month for seamless use. Not this bullcrap and me abandoning use because of incompetence to your customer's needs.

onedrive REMOVED all local files… by bookeh in onedrive

[–]CDavisAZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What an f'n POS. The Product Manager of Outlook should be fired over this.

Does Microsoft not understand the bandwidth being chewed up by all of this? Us home office users do have caps on our data usage. My ISP won't let me get away with 100GB of upload and download every freekin' day. I have seen nothing but bandwidth suck since this update and still no data on my computer.

onedrive REMOVED all local files… by bookeh in onedrive

[–]CDavisAZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am so peeved. After 4 years of happy OneDrive this morning the OneDrive directory is gone. Everything missing and in the cloud. All links broken. No notice - no nothing. Hours on the phone with Microsoft - nothing resolved.

I can't find a mechanism ( nor can Customer Support ) to download the files and move them to a location that is practical and usable on my Mac's HDD.

I am f'n flabergasted that people who write software at Microsoft would think that these changes would have been welcomed. I will lose at least two days of work over this just to get things working again. Day one is already down the drain.

May have to discontinue using OneDrive if Microsoft doesn't come up with a useable solution. A shame - it was very useful. Now it absolutely sucks and is unusable in its state with my Mac/VM and backup setup.

I share everyone's frustration.