Power-up circuit for field programmable gate arrays

A protection circuit prevents a current spike in a logic module in a field programmable gate array during power up of the gate array. The protection circuit supplies a voltage onto an internal disable input of the logic module during power up until a voltage output by a charge pump reaches a predetermined voltage. The voltage on the internal disable input turns off transistor(s) in the logic module and prevents the current spike. When the voltage output by the charge pump reaches the predetermined voltage, the protection circuit no longer supplies the voltage to the logic module's internal disable input.