DOM MB Diagnosis page

Board ID:

Rev 5.0 SN 0332

Source:

From inspection, August 11, 2004

Symptoms:                            

Cold Boot failure; Communications falure.

Analyst(s):

T. Stezelberger

Analysis Procedure(s):

Investigate race condition between EPC8 and EPXA4 download conditions

Root cause:

Timing margin shifted out of range at low temperature,  violating download requirement.

Mitigation:

Change CPLD firmware to enforce timing requirement upon EPC8 and EPXA4.

Disposition:

Test at low temperatures to observe the effectiveness of the solution. 
STF test run at -75C;  as expected, the

Any Other Information:

Travler