Application not running on a Rigado BMD-300

[drumm3r]

Hi all

Being fairly new to the nRF ecosystem I'm trying to get some basic code up and running on a custom board which uses a Rigado BMD-300. I'm using one of the examples in the SDK, and this runs fine on the Development Kit I have (PCA10040) but not on the BMD-300. I have updated the configuration of the clock sources as per this post (https://rigado.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/225674668-Example-files-will-not-run-on-my-hardware-but-do-on-the-Eval-board-) 

However although the device programs and verifies fine (from both Segger Embedded Studio and nRFgo Studio) I see absolutely nothing - no flashing LEDs and nothing being advertised. Power seems fine, but I don't see a peep from the custom board.

I'm a bit stumped - what should I try next!

Thanks!

[awneil]

drumm3r said:

what should I try next!

Use the debugger to see if the code is getting stuck or crashing somewhere ...

[drumm3r]

Ok, very good point! It seems that although the debugger throws no errors at all (seems to program fine then run) it isn't actually running the code. I can't step through the code, and it doesn't hit any breakpoints at all.

It is weird how I see no errors though!

[awneil]

drumm3r said:

It is weird how I see no errors though

Not at all!

The only errors you would get are due to programming failures - they tell you nothing about whether the code is valid or correct.

drumm3r said:

it isn't actually running the code

Why do you say that?

drumm3r said:

I can't step through the code,

Why not?

Remember that we can't see what you're doing, or what you have, so we can't say where you may be going wrong.

Do you have colleagues / supervisors / teachers locally to guide you?

[Jared]

Hi,

If the example is working fine on a Nordic Devkit then it's probably related to the BMD-300. You should therefore contact Rigado as we only offer support for Nordic Semiconductor products. 

Best regards

Jared

[awneil]

As Jared, you should contact Rigado to check what specific changes should be made for their particular module.

Do Rigado provide some examples specifically for your module that you could try?