Latest on #00310396. The serial issues.
> "My colleagues at the Business Unit confirmed that they could recreate part of the issue on their end, specifically the nEDBG seems to configure its I/O ports and allows transmission if the BAUD rate is changed while the port is connected in a terminal. This is a bug that they will look into fixing."
I am correct in thinking that the goal is that the terminal will work 'out of the box' in terms of transmission from the board. Tell them NOT to break it!
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> "We see that you use two COM ports, 13 and 20, are both of these PIC16F18446 XPRESS boards?
> We also noticed an oddity, at 03:18 you use putty to connect to COM13 with 19200, but the title bar of the terminal window at 03:22 shows COM9 at 115200."
Who is 'we'
13 is CNANO Curiosity NANO USB - 16f18446
20 is an external USB/Serial converter.
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> "We also noticed an oddity, at 03:18 you use putty to connect to COM13 with 19200, but the title bar of the terminal window at 03:22 shows COM9 at 115200."
Accepted. This is an oddity of the display of Putty. Ignore the "COM9 at 115200" as should have saved the settings.
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> "We used two PIC16F18446 XPRESS boards to conduct the test"
Do not do that! You need one reference point - tell the Business Unit to get an Xpress 185555 board - that board is stable.
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> "We have not been able to replicate the issue you show at 1:30[previous video], where you click in the left hand terminal (COM13), and then the right hand terminal (COM20) starts transmitting. Do you have any more details to share about your setup?"
New video, see
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y389q6ufzmrzx6v/FrankenXpressBoardSerialIssue002.avi?dl=0
Setup is Xpress board and the external USB/Serial device. Win7. Noting fancy.
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> "This is probably stating the obvious, but in both Br@y and CoolTerm you are supposed to press the "light bulbs" in the lower right hand corner to set the DTR signal."
The terminal needs to operate without DTR otherwise we are commencing a debug operation. So, no... I am not selecting DTR. I do not plan to - ever.
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Summary: Some progress as they are now able to reproduce the issues but not fixed.
Evan