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I have been using uniflash to program the EK-TM4C129EXL dev board with some example programs, which has worked fine for a few days. However, Uniflash has suddenly stopped working today, and is only giving me an error: "CORTEX_M4_0: Error connecting to the target". Similarly, I cannot use the Debug feature in CCS to run my code in debug mode.
I have tried using uniflash to program a second identical dev board, which works fine. I suspect I may have corrupted something on the board, since the last thing I was testing is trying to set ALTCLK to RTCOSC. Is it possible to make the EK-TM4C129EXL dev board un-flashable by misconfiguring the MCU? Any suggestions to recover from this situation?
Here's the code I flashed right before the MCU stopped responding. It's based off the timers.c example in the Tivaware SDK but I have modified it since I was trying to use General Purpose Timers to drive a PWM output pin, and I was trying to use RTCOSC as the timer's clock.
//*****************************************************************************
//
// timers.c - Timers example.
//
// Copyright (c) 2013-2020 Texas Instruments Incorporated. All rights reserved.
// Software License Agreement
//
// Texas Instruments (TI) is supplying this software for use solely and
// exclusively on TI's microcontroller products. The software is owned by
// TI and/or its suppliers, and is protected under applicable copyright
// laws. You may not combine this software with "viral" open-source
// software in order to form a larger program.
//
// THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITH ALL FAULTS.
// NO WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT
// NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
// A PARTICULAR PURPOSE APPLY TO THIS SOFTWARE. TI SHALL NOT, UNDER ANY
// CIRCUMSTANCES, BE LIABLE FOR SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
// DAMAGES, FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER.
//
// This is part of revision 2.2.0.295 of the EK-TM4C1294XL Firmware Package.
//
//*****************************************************************************
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include "inc/hw_ints.h"
#include "inc/hw_memmap.h"
#include "inc/hw_types.h"
#include "driverlib/debug.h"
#include "driverlib/fpu.h"
#include "driverlib/gpio.h"
#include "driverlib/interrupt.h"
#include "driverlib/pin_map.h"
#include "driverlib/rom.h"
#include "driverlib/rom_map.h"
#include "driverlib/sysctl.h"
#include "driverlib/timer.h"
#include "driverlib/uart.h"
#include "utils/uartstdio.h"
//*****************************************************************************
//
//! \addtogroup example_list
//! <h1>Timer (timers)</h1>
//!
//! This example application demonstrates the use of the timers to generate
//! periodic interrupts. One timer is set up to interrupt once per second and
//! the other to interrupt twice per second; each interrupt handler will toggle
//! its own indicator throught the UART.
//!
//! UART0, connected to the Virtual Serial Port and running at 115,200, 8-N-1,
//! is used to display messages from this application.
//
//*****************************************************************************
//****************************************************************************
//
// System clock rate in Hz.
//
//****************************************************************************
uint32_t g_ui32SysClock;
//*****************************************************************************
//
// Flags that contain the current value of the interrupt indicator as displayed
// on the UART.
//
//*****************************************************************************
uint32_t g_ui32Flags;
//*****************************************************************************
//
// The error routine that is called if the driver library encounters an error.
//
//*****************************************************************************
#ifdef DEBUG
void
__error__(char *pcFilename, uint32_t ui32Line)
{
}
#endif
//*****************************************************************************
//
// Configure the UART and its pins. This must be called before UARTprintf().
//
//*****************************************************************************
void
ConfigureUART(void)
{
//
// Enable the GPIO Peripheral used by the UART.
//
MAP_SysCtlPeripheralEnable(SYSCTL_PERIPH_GPIOA);
//
// Enable UART0.
//
MAP_SysCtlPeripheralEnable(SYSCTL_PERIPH_UART0);
//
// Configure GPIO Pins for UART mode.
//
MAP_GPIOPinConfigure(GPIO_PA0_U0RX);
MAP_GPIOPinConfigure(GPIO_PA1_U0TX);
MAP_GPIOPinTypeUART(GPIO_PORTA_BASE, GPIO_PIN_0 | GPIO_PIN_1);
//
// Initialize the UART for console I/O.
//
UARTStdioConfig(0, 115200, g_ui32SysClock);
}
//*****************************************************************************
//
// This example application demonstrates the use of the timers to generate
// periodic interrupts.
//
//*****************************************************************************
int
main(void)
{
//
// Run from the PLL at 120 MHz.
// Note: SYSCTL_CFG_VCO_240 is a new setting provided in TivaWare 2.2.x and
// later to better reflect the actual VCO speed due to SYSCTL#22.
//
g_ui32SysClock = MAP_SysCtlClockFreqSet((SYSCTL_XTAL_25MHZ |
SYSCTL_OSC_MAIN |
SYSCTL_USE_PLL |
SYSCTL_CFG_VCO_240), 120000000);
//
// Initialize the UART and write status.
//
ConfigureUART();
UARTprintf("\033[2JTimers example\n");
UARTprintf("T1: 0 T2: 0");
//
// Enable the GPIO port that is used for the on-board LEDs.
//
MAP_SysCtlPeripheralEnable(SYSCTL_PERIPH_GPION);
MAP_SysCtlPeripheralEnable(SYSCTL_PERIPH_GPIOD);
MAP_GPIOPinTypeGPIOOutput(GPIO_PORTN_BASE, GPIO_PIN_0 | GPIO_PIN_1);
GPIOPinConfigure(GPIO_PD0_T0CCP0);
GPIOPinTypeTimer(GPIO_PORTD_BASE, GPIO_PIN_0);
//
// Enable the peripherals used by this example.
//
MAP_SysCtlPeripheralEnable(SYSCTL_PERIPH_TIMER0); // this one will be used as a PWM
SysCtlAltClkConfig(SYSCTL_ALTCLK_RTCOSC);
TimerClockSourceSet(TIMER0_BASE, SYSCTL_ALTCLK_RTCOSC);
//
// Configure the two 32-bit periodic timers.
//
MAP_TimerConfigure(TIMER0_BASE, (TIMER_CFG_SPLIT_PAIR |TIMER_CFG_A_PWM ));
MAP_TimerLoadSet(TIMER0_BASE, TIMER_A, 65535);
MAP_TimerMatchSet(TIMER0_BASE, TIMER_A, 65535/2);
MAP_TimerPrescaleSet(TIMER0_BASE, TIMER_A, 0);
MAP_TimerPrescaleMatchSet(TIMER0_BASE, TIMER_A, 0);
//
// Enable the timers.
//
MAP_TimerEnable(TIMER0_BASE, TIMER_A);
//
// Loop forever while the timer runs.
//
while(1)
{
}
}