Lpc2000

Dear all,

    Having finally got IAR to compile stuff (thanks Ivan for the help), my
only problem now is that the Philips LPC Flash utility keeps crashing my PC,
sometimes its fine, and I can read the Processor ID, and flash it. If I do
this a second time, 9 times out of ten the PC reboots.
    A lot of the time the LPC flash utility says it can't find the board, do
this a few times in a row and then blam, PC reboots.

    Does anyone else have this problem? And ideally, does anyone have a
soloution?

Paul

At 10:14 PM 11/2/04 +0000, you wrote:
>     Having finally got IAR to compile stuff (thanks Ivan for the help), my
>only problem now is that the Philips LPC Flash utility keeps crashing my PC,
>sometimes its fine, and I can read the Processor ID, and flash it. If I do
>this a second time, 9 times out of ten the PC reboots.
>     A lot of the time the LPC flash utility says it can't find the board, do
>this a few times in a row and then blam, PC reboots.
>
>     Does anyone else have this problem? And ideally, does anyone have a
>soloution?

I've not had the crash problem but on the few occasions I've had trouble 
connecting it has just been a bad/loose connection.  Have you tried one of 
the other ISP programs?

Robert

" 'Freedom' has no meaning of itself.  There are always restrictions,
be they legal, genetic, or physical.  If you don't believe me, try to
chew a radio signal. "

                         Kelvin Throop, III

Paul,

Do you have linux, or can you install it?

Unless it's a bad hardware problem, it's highly unlikely linux will 
crash when running my little flash utility.

http://www.pjrc.com/arm/lpc2k_pgm/


Paul

Robert,

> I've not had the crash problem but on the few occasions I've had trouble
> connecting it has just been a bad/loose connection.  Have you tried one of
> the other ISP programs?

No, a good point.
Any you can recommend?

Paul

Paul,

> Do you have linux, or can you install it?

No, I've got OSX, but no drivers for my usb to serial thingy for OSX (or
linux).

> Unless it's a bad hardware problem, it's highly unlikely linux will
> crash when running my little flash utility.

I've tried two different USB-> serial converters..

> http://www.pjrc.com/arm/lpc2k_pgm/

I'll see what I can do.

thanks
Paul

At 09:19 PM 11/4/04 +0000, you wrote:

>Robert,
>
> > I've not had the crash problem but on the few occasions I've had trouble
> > connecting it has just been a bad/loose connection.  Have you tried one of
> > the other ISP programs?
>
>No, a good point.
>Any you can recommend?

Well Pauls has already jumped in with a pointer to his Linux GUI download 
program.  The other one I'm aware of is Martin's lpc21isp.

http://www.engelschall.com/~martin/lpc21xx/isp/index.html

I've used all three of them (I've not seen your problem though).

Robert

" 'Freedom' has no meaning of itself.  There are always restrictions,
be they legal, genetic, or physical.  If you don't believe me, try to
chew a radio signal. "

                         Kelvin Throop, III

On Friday 05 November 2004 10:27, Robert Adsett wrote:
> At 09:19 PM 11/4/04 +0000, you wrote:
> >Robert,
> >
> > > I've not had the crash problem but on the few occasions I've had
> > > trouble connecting it has just been a bad/loose connection.  Have you
> > > tried one of the other ISP programs?
> >
> >No, a good point.
> >Any you can recommend?
>
> Well Pauls has already jumped in with a pointer to his Linux GUI download
> program.  The other one I'm aware of is Martin's lpc21isp.
>
> http://www.engelschall.com/~martin/lpc21xx/isp/index.html
>
> I've used all three of them (I've not seen your problem though).
>
> Robert

I have problems with the Philips programmer with some hardware/PC 
combinations but have no problems with lpc21isp under both Linux and Windows.

What happens is that the LPCxxx sees some unexpected stuff on the serial 
lines and gets confused.  The confusion can be corrected by retrying the '?' 
until things sort themselves out.  I've found up to 70 '?' are sometimes 
required. 

I added retry/synchronisation to Martin's  lpc21isp a while ago and told 
Philips of the issue, but so far it appears they have not added this to their 
code. I have never tried Paul's GUI so I don't know if this implements the 
retry.

The last time I tried it, the Philips app still had not implemented any 
retry/ syncronisation stuff and it sends just one '?'. The programmer does 
not always connect successfully with all hardware/PC combinations. I have 
found this to be worse with laptops which seem to implement some sort of 
power saving on the serial ports which throws the protocol out of step. This 
happens particularly with hardware that does not use the serial cable for 
reset and setting the programming state.

-- CHarles