Hi Bas,

I use NXP Kinetis KW2xd MCU and OpenOCD + JLink with SWD, for flashing.

I didn't know there were special procedures for unlocking devices.

I'll try to use NXP official IDE flash these chips again.

Thanks

Olivier





Le mer. 19 déc. 2018 à 08:17, Bas Stottelaar <[email protected]> a
écrit :

> Hi Oliever,
>
> Which MCUs have you been playing with?
>
> This is a common 'problem' that can occur when you indeed enable LPM (or
> other things like disable debug pins etc). Therefore, most MCUs have
> certain procedures to keep the MCU halted after a reset, before any code is
> executed and the MCU gets unreachable. IIRC, ARM Cortex provides a
> vector-catch operation to halt the MCU after reset. Some IDEs (like
> Simplicity Studio for EFM32 MCUs) have a special unlock operation.
>
> Your solution isn't new, but works great to solve/work-around the problem
> ;-)
>
> Kind regards
> Bas Stottelaar
>
>
>
> Op wo 19 dec. 2018 om 08:08 schreef Olivier Fauchon <
> [email protected]>:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently bricked a couple of MCUs playing with low power modes.
>> I'm still not sure what happened, but enabling LPM on my board makes JTAG
>> inoperant.
>>
>> I spent a lot of time trying to save these dead MCUs.
>>
>> To avoid this situation, I added some kind of recovery mode at boot :
>>
>>
>> board.c
>>
>> void board_init(void)
>> ...
>>
>>     // Safeguard: Infinite loop if board started with buttons pushed
>>     gpio_init(BTN0_PIN, GPIO_IN_PU);
>>     gpio_init(BTN1_PIN, GPIO_IN_PU);
>>     if (!gpio_read(BTN0_PIN) ||  !gpio_read(BTN1_PIN) ) {
>>         gpio_set(LED0_PIN);
>>         gpio_set(LED1_PIN);
>>         while(1){}
>>     }
>>
>> Did I reinvent the wheel ?
>> Do Riot have already mecanisms to delay boot , or other way to protect
>> from bad images ?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Olivier Fauchon
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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