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A comment on AWS EC2 FPGA Hardware and Software Development Kit. Parent comment

Re:AWS EC2 FPGA Hardware and Software Development Kit by bedros on Friday April 21, 2017 @03:42AM (#14163742)
Z logic or tri-state logic are not real in FPGAs, they are chains of AND OR logic

so basically you cannot burn FPGA by making a short-circuit

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Re:AWS EC2 FPGA Hardware and Software Development Kit by mikejmoffitt on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @04:48PM (#14206851)
A floating pin on a CMOS device is absolutely real.
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