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usage of bootloader on PIC32mx

2014-01-23
2014-02-13
  • Davide Spazian

    Davide Spazian - 2014-01-23

    Dears,
    I've succesfully recompiled and flashed your bootloader, and I got the first sw update from the UART working. I'm very happy with this, it's been really easy to make it running from scratch.
    What I noticed so far, is that the first reprogramming seems to work fine, while trying to perform a further reprogramming brings problem, and the device become unusable.The second try seems to fail on program reprogramming as you can see from the log output:


    Check Device...
    Open COM29 serial port at 57600bd
    Found: PIC32MX3xx_to_7xx w/512KB flash
    Open HEX file: D:\Progetti\Firmware_REPO\BCAN\trunk\BCAN\BCAN.hex
    Erasing Flash Memory...
    Erase OK
    Transferring Config Bytes...
    Transferring flash...
    Transferring boot memory...
    Transferring program memory...
    Transferring HEX successfull :-)
    Close COM29 serial port


    Check Device...
    Open COM29 serial port at 57600bd
    Found: PIC32MX3xx_to_7xx w/512KB flash
    Open HEX file: D:\Progetti\Firmware_REPO\BCAN\trunk\BCAN\BCAN.hex
    Erasing Flash Memory...
    Erase OK
    Transferring Config Bytes...
    Transferring flash...
    Transferring boot memory...
    Transferring program memory...
    no answer
    ERROR: problem in writing flash memory!!!
    Close COM29 serial port


    I see this issue every time after the first successful try. Am I configuring the config bit badly?

    This is how I've setup the config bit on the user program:
    '#pragma config FPLLMUL = MUL_20, FPLLIDIV = DIV_5, FPLLODIV = DIV_1, FWDTEN = ON, WDTPS = PS4096, FSOSCEN = OFF
    '#pragma config POSCMOD = HS, FNOSC = PRIPLL, FPBDIV = DIV_1, DEBUG = OFF, ICESEL = ICS_PGx1

    Moreover,I would like to understand if there's the possibility to know if the user sw contained the flash is correct or not, and if not, simply hangup waiting for the new bootloader. This would help in case of empty eeprom, where only the bootloader is present, but also could give the possibility to recover a burned unit after a bad program.

    Thank you for you great job,

    Davide

     

    Last edit: Davide Spazian 2014-01-23
    • Davide Spazian

      Davide Spazian - 2014-01-28

      Ok, It seems I got it working. I setup the configuration bits of my program in the bootloader(exactly the same), and deselcted the option "config bytes" from the pc application.

       
  • edorul

    edorul - 2014-02-13

    Hello Davide.
    Sorry for the inconvenience, I knew that config bytes writting on PIC32 didn't work, but I've forgotten to disable it from the PC software.
    Thanks for the bug report!
    Best regards,
    Edorul

     

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