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CC2640R2F: Going through the backdoor of the bootloader

Part Number: CC2640R2F

Hello,

My customer want to enter the ROM bootloader through the backdoor. As illustrated by Fig. 1 of the CC26xx Serial Bootloader Interface revA application report, they want to go through the following flow: POR > FLASH image valid > BL backdoor enabled > PinNumber.level == level. They use the TI Launchpad and connect DIO_4 to GND. Their code is the following:

#define SET_CCFG_BL_CONFIG_BOOTLOADER_ENABLE         0xC5       // Enable ROM boot loader
#define SET_CCFG_BL_CONFIG_BL_LEVEL                  0x0        // Active low to open boot loader backdoor - PIN #9 (DIO_4)
#define SET_CCFG_BL_CONFIG_BL_PIN_NUMBER                9       // DIO number for boot loader backdoor - PIN #9 (DIO_4)
#define SET_CCFG_BL_CONFIG_BL_ENABLE                 0xC5       // Enabled boot loader backdoor
#define SET_CCFG_IMAGE_VALID_CONF_IMAGE_VALID           0x00000000 // Flash image is valid

With this configuration, the software does not enter the bootloader. If they configure IMAGE_VALID to -1, it does enter the bootloder, but that's not the path they are supposed to follow. Could you please suggest some possible sources for this issue? Thank you.

Best regards,
François.