Tool/software: Code Composer Studio
Hello everyone,
Sorry for the post, but I was doing a project in CCS which uses port 2's pins as inputs to play a game on a 5 V matrix display. This is relevant because I didn't have buttons or switches so I would connect Vcc momentarily to the pin and it would register a HIGH. Unfortunately, I was touching every pin with Vcc as a result since port 2 is spread across the board.
At some point, CCS stopped communicating with the board and now the 2 LEDs are dimly but forever lit, for as long as the board is powered up. the Vcc pin is at ~4 V, and I am not sure if that is supposed to be the case. Every time I try to load a program into the board, I get the error:
"Error initializing emulator: No USB FET was found"
Now thankfully my brother has 2 more identical boards, and I took to troubleshooting and using to try and recreate the scenario that broke the first board. Funny enough, the board, when I plugged it in, got toasted alive when I connected the 5 V matrix display. Now the matrix display is toast, and the new board won't communicate with the PC anymore.
Sorry for the bad structure of this message, I can't really tell what is going on but I am trying my best to figure out stuff.
I tried resetting the board by issuing this command: WDTCTL = 0; since I read it is considered a hard reset.
My biggest fear is that the actual board is toast, and not the IC, and a slightly better scenario would be the IC is toast. However, if it is possible that there is something that can be done to resurrect the board, if you could share that I will be very grateful.
Thank you so much and sorry again for the message.
Kind regards, Jacob.
