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Zynq Z7020 on picozed fried during SW download

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I purchased a picozed 7Z20 and made a custom carrier board for it.  I was able to power it on and get the FPGA DONE LED to light up, I was able to program the Zynq chip PL through VIVADO, and I was able to begin programming the PS through vitis.  towards the end of downloading my SW to the board I lost JTAG connection and I am afraid my Z720 chip is now dead, it gets instantly hot when powered on and draws around 3x the current it did when I first booted it up. 
 
the board had been on for a fair amount of time, 10 minutes of power cycling it while trying to get it set up on a test bench, probably 5 minutes of me setting up and downloading the PL firmware a couple of times, 20 minutes between then and trying the SW download.
 
I'm wondering if anyone might have any insight into what went wrong here, Is it possible for the chip to overheat and kill itself?, I don't have any heatsink or fan on the chip but I figured there was some built in thermal protection but maybe I'm wrong.  Otherwise, I'm not sure what might have happened if it was working fine. I doubt JTAG programming could fry the chip
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    "Is it possible for the chip to overheat and kill itself?, I don't have any heatsink or fan on the chip.."

    I have used 7z020 in several designs, some rather large ones, without a heatsink and never had any issues so far. In vivado you can see the power report to get an estimate on your design's power consumption. My designs have had up to 2W of estimated power consumption as per the power report, and while the chip got hot it didn't get damaged. If your design is small and yet the actual power consumption is very high, then perhaps something else went wrong.

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    "Is it possible for the chip to overheat and kill itself?, I don't have any heatsink or fan on the chip.."

    I have used 7z020 in several designs, some rather large ones, without a heatsink and never had any issues so far. In vivado you can see the power report to get an estimate on your design's power consumption. My designs have had up to 2W of estimated power consumption as per the power report, and while the chip got hot it didn't get damaged. If your design is small and yet the actual power consumption is very high, then perhaps something else went wrong.

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    Thanks for the info, I didn't know about this in Vivado, It says 1.8W for my design, When I first plugged in the board I was drawing around 600 mA at 5V so about 3W.

    After burning out the chip its drawing around 1.5A (although that might be the limit of the power supply).  I will have to check the power draw of the other peripherals on the 5V rail to see if 3W is suspicious. 

    I do have one of my connectors to the board bodged on so I will double check the traces I have cut and rerouted to make sure I didn't miss anything, the only thing that could be an issue are the VCCO and 5V rail connections as everything else is generic gpio for the PL or the programming lines and I know those work for sure.