How  do I ask the designer?

On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 8:43:05 AM UTC-5, Gerald wrote:
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> Did you ask the designer?
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> Gerald
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> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:33 AM, <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote:
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>> I was having flaky USB behavior on multiple BBB boards and so 
>> investigated the USB Power control circuitry. Her is what I found.
>>
>> The Pull-Up resistor on the USB1_OCn signal has an invalid voltage 
>> reading.  The pull up should set the signal at 3.3V as the resistor is 
>> attached to a 3.3V supply. (this was verified through measurement).  The 
>> value of the pull up is 10K as shown.
>> Essentially what I see is that during certain USB activity the main 
>> processor will disable the USB1_DRVVBUS signal which turns off USB power. 
>> My theory is that the voltage level on the USB1_OCn signal is close to the 
>> value which would indicate an Over Current condition.
>> The processor then removes power and disable the USB bus. (this is my 
>> theory but I am not positive on this)
>>
>> What is a fact is that the voltage on the USB1_OCn signal is at an 
>> improper logic value for a 3.3 Volt IO signal.  The processor will at times 
>> remove the USB1_DRVVBUS signal hence removing USB power.
>>
>> I have watched the USB1_OCn signal while the processor removes the 
>> USB1_DRVVBUS signal. It does not change value to 0 volts as would be 
>> expected when a true over current condition occurs.  I also forced the Over 
>> Current condition by grounding the USB1_OCn signal to verify that the 
>> processor will remove the USB_DRVVBUS signal when a truen OC event occurs. 
>> It did remove the USB_DRVVBUS signal as expected.
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>> To investigate why the USB1_OCn signal was being held in an improper 
>> state, I lifted Pin 5 of U8 removing the open drain driver.  The voltage 
>> remained at the incorrect logic level showing that the culprit is not U8.
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>> I tried to come up with a work around by lifting pin 4 of U8 and pulling 
>> it high such that the processor could not remove the power from the USB 
>> port.  In this case the kernal will not recognize the USB port.  During 
>> boot, the USB_DRVVBUS signal never goes to a high state. I monitored this 
>> signal even though it was not attached to U8.  I believe the USB Bus 
>> voltage is present at the main processor before the main processor wanted 
>> it be there and during boot gets upset and does not enable the port.
>>
>> So....
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>> Can anyone from Beagle explain why the voltage on R52 is sitting at 2.4 
>> volts? 
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