Hi James... going to troubleshoot on site after lunch tomorrow. He could be using MSP-FET on the 14 pin header, or his own custom programmer on the 10 pin... I'll see tomorrow: The PC host interface is using what we call our “black box programmer” to interface to our Viewer application that is based on LabView engine. The black box has a standard USB-to-serial (3V TTL) converter (using an FTDI chip) that connects to the PC running Windows 7. The UART (COM) is setup for 9600,E, 8, 1 when sending the commands to MSP430. However, we “think” the processor may not be entering BSL mode given that we never get a response no matter what is sent to the MSP430. The RTS/DTR signals connect to the TICKLE and /RST lines, respectively. The, the HOST_TX connects directly to the target board’s RXD signal and the HOST_RXD connects to the target boards TXD signal. It’s pretty straight forward… We can’t use this for production since we come through a standard mini-DIN serial interface that connects to the TX, RX, TEST and RST lines. We’ve been doing this for years and not sure why this particular processor is not working… Just to confirm… Our setup is using the MSP-TS430PM64F socket target board w/ the MSP340FR6972 installed along with our “black box” serial converter device to talk to the host PC. (9600, N, E, 8, 1) The host connects directly to the BSL RX, BSL TX, TEST and /RST pins on the 10-pin BSL connector on the Target Board as described in previous emails with the board being powered externally as suggested below. The jumper settings are set according to below as well and have tried sending different commands (i.e. RX password) still with no success. I am planning to purchase the Rocket BSL hardware and try using the BSL Scripter tool just to see how the /RST and TEST lines behave with this setup. I’m not sure what else about our setup might be causing the issue… (I really would not be happy to find that we need a 10us pulse on the TEST pin like the 5436A devices (SYS10 bug) on the previous system….which forced us to have to use another micro to generate the BSL sequence to the 5436A)
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