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NRF52832 in Hard Fault State.

soumil

Hi,

We have made a custom PCB using the NRF52832 chip. While it was working fine for a couple of days, it suddenly stopped working and went to a hard fault. We are not able to figure out the reason for this issue.

We have debugged the PCB and measured the voltages at different points in the circuit.

DEC1 - 750mV

VDD - 3.25V

DEC4 - 1.25V

DEC3 - 3.25V

DEC2 - 1.25V

RESET PIN - 3.25V

Is the voltage at DEC1 effecting the Nordic chip since it should be 0.9V?

Also please let us know when does hard fault usually come. We even ran a simple LED toggle program but even then we got a hard fault error.

Does hard fault mean that the memory of the chip is corrupted? Should we get the chip replaced ?

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    See my answer to your other (rather similar) question. If you have a reproducible hardfault you are very lucky because all you need to do is stop the board with a debugger, go look at the registers and stack and work your way backwards.

    I don't know where you got this bizarre 'memory corruption' and 'chip replaced' idea from. That's the absolute least likely reason for hardfault.

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    no it doesn't obviously mean anything of the sort. The fact the chip gets to hardfault (are you even sure it is by the way or is that another guess?) means it's basically working. If the crystal wasn't working it wouldn't matter for the HF one (stays on the RC) and I doubt you've even got to the point of trying to enable the LF one or probably the HF one come to that.

    You need to actually debug the hardfault. You need to read the registers and you need to work back to find out why you have hardfaulted. Stop guessing and handwaving about bad hardware, hardfaults leave a trail behind them, follow it.

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    no it doesn't obviously mean anything of the sort. The fact the chip gets to hardfault (are you even sure it is by the way or is that another guess?) means it's basically working. If the crystal wasn't working it wouldn't matter for the HF one (stays on the RC) and I doubt you've even got to the point of trying to enable the LF one or probably the HF one come to that.

    You need to actually debug the hardfault. You need to read the registers and you need to work back to find out why you have hardfaulted. Stop guessing and handwaving about bad hardware, hardfaults leave a trail behind them, follow it.

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