Re: LPM3 seems to interfere with MSP's ability to restart

And is there anything in the errata sheet? I remember once coming across an
errata where the device would not wake up from LPM if the interrupt is
triggered a few clock cycles after the LPM instruction.


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Andrew McLaren <[email protected]>wrote:

> I'll plug Valentin's response in below, as it's got tied to my erroneous
> post (I always thought this was keyed on the message title, but seems to be
> more than that?).
>
> In the test code I was running, I was literally doing nothing more than the
> bare minimum I needed to do to get the MSP running (disabling the watchdog,
> waiting for its oscillator to stabilise), then dropping it into an LPM3
> state. None of the timers where operational (unless their registers were
> not
> initialised disabled, as I'd expect). Maybe there are multiple 'wait'
> states
> that a reload can't totally recover from. Haven't any idea if this is
> mspdebug related or not.
>
> Re the PC question, since mspdebug can't communicate with the target
> processor, its in no position to retrieve any context of what the target is
> doing. I'm assuming anything trying to access via the JTAG is going to have
> the same problem (unless this is somehow mspdebug specific?)
>
> Andrew
>
>
> From: Valentin Sawadski [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, 24 November 2013 1:30 a.m.
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Mspgcc-users] LPM3 seems to interfere with MSP's ability to
> restart
>
>
> Hi
>
> I'm not sure if it is directy related to your issue but one thing I noticed
> when debugging targets with MSPGCC is the following.
>
> My program is using Timer A and directly after programming the MSP with
> mspdebug the Timer A is not starting up. It is simply not counting. I have
> to powercycle the board to have it operate correctly. This happens every
> time I program the MSP. Are you by any chance also using Timer A?
>
> Btw have you tried to evaluate the program counter to see where it is
> stuck?
>
> Best,
> Valentin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew McLaren [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, 21 November 2013 1:13 p.m.
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: LPM3 seems to interfere with MSP's ability to restart
>
>
> Seemed to have managed to post this as a reply to another thread... Should
> be here on its own!
>
> I'm seeing a bit of a weird situation that I don't really understand. I
> suspect it will be something simple (hopefully just a 'dumb user error'!).
> It affects the ability of the debugger to reload/restart code following an
> LPM3 state.
>
> I've been able to reduce the logic to simply the command that triggers the
> LPM3 state (I'm using C, so its just the LPM3 macro). As expected, the
> command drops the MSP into lpm3, and the logic promptly hangs (there is
> nothing there to exit this). This is running via mspdebug under Eclipse, so
> if I pause the logic, I'll see that it is indeed sitting at the LPM3
> instruction.
>
> If I terminate this and reload the code, all appears normal (the write/read
> messages from mspdebug as it erases and reloads the code seem normal).
> However, when the code is restarted, it appears to hang somewhere - it
> never
> reaches the LPM3 instruction. This appears to have left the target MSP in
> some sort of indeterminate state, and haven't found any way of retrieving
> it
> other than power cycling the target. If I simply restart mspdebug, it
> reports the following (this is using the TI FET, but have also tried an
> Olimex JTAG-TINY with the same end result).
>
> TI3140 device is in boot config, setting active
>
> Ti3140: TI_OPEN_PORT failed: A device attached to the system is not
> functioning.
>
> Ti3140: failed to set up port
>
> I guess mspdebug is having issues communicating, and the problem is out
> with
> the target msp. Powering the target MSP off and on clears the problem, but
> haven't found anything else that does.
>
> While the above is obviously contrived, many MSP's live most of their lives
> in LP states, and LPM3 is possibly the most common of these. Any reload of
> code while debugging is highly likely to be from something like LPM3, so
> have to believe its something I'm doing. Any ideas?
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
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