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Errors "Security fuse has been blown" and "Could not find device"

ivashko hesevic
Prodigy 10 points
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: MSP430F148

  Hi!

I know that my problem is unsolvable, so my message is like a cry from the heart)

I've read so many posts about this problem. And any of solutions didn't help me.

 

I develop a device with MSP430F148. I use MSP430-JTAG-TINY-V2 to debug and IAR KickStart 5.60. At first I connected debugger with 4-wire jtag interface (and RST pin). When i tried to debug in IAR there was an error:

Could not find device (or device not supported)

Then i unconnected RST pin of microcontroller from jtag connector. After this debugger run. But from time to time i got an error:

Security fuse has been blown

I made two same boards with MSP430F148. With first one i got this error very seldom. But with the second one i got this error too often (debugger run in about 1 time from 20 attempts). And two days ago IAR started to give out my previous error (with unconnected RST pin):

Could not find device (or device not supported)

So, i saw many advices and tried it. But no success. The most popular solution is related with RST pin. I removed capacitor 2,2n, reduced the value of pull-up resistor, made button to reset the board (esspecially at the powering up the board). But nothing helped. 

I tried many softwares like MSPFET, MSP OLIMEX PROGRAMMER, MSP430 Flasher. Each of them give me out now the same error -  Could not find device (or device not supported).

There is an idea about programm code that not disables watchdog and microcontroller is always in "reset-cycle". But programm witch i wrote in flash of microcontroller is executing now. 

I tried different drivers and dlls (MSP430.dll and OLIMEX.DLL), but nothing helped.

If you have any ideas please give me know

Thanks in advance!

  • 0
    Guru 227245 points

    These errors (aside of a really blown fuse or an MSP that is really not known to the FET because it is too new or not supported) is a communication failure between the FET and the MSP. If it is caused by an offending software (e.g. one that constantly resets the MSP before the FET can attach), then a different PC software (a faster one like the Elprotronic tool) might help.
    But it can be as well a hardware problem. Bad cable or connector, large line capacitance, hair-cuts on the wires or traces or bad soldering or shortcuts. Or insufficient supply.
    Happened often on out hand-soldered PCBs. Usually, after cleaning the PCB the error went away. Sometimes I had to redo the soldering on the JTAG pins.

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