Not an expert but from what I recall reading, it used to be possible on the early ones; people would put a finger on the FPGA when testing a new configuration a

Not an expert but from what I recall reading, it used to be possible on the early ones; people would put a finger on the FPGA when testing a new configuration and immediately cut power to the board if it started heating up abnormally. In modern FPGAs, there's thermal protection built in. [EDIT] See also: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/445323/can-you-actually-break-an-fpga-by-programming-it-wrong https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/445323/can-y...