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UART communication issue thread

Hi All,

We are trying to interface nRF52840 based custom board, manufactured using Config 6 schematic as the reference, with R-Pi to work as NCP. Please refer to the attached schematic .

 

We found that the RPi was not able to communicate with the custom board, so when we tried to trace UART signal between R-Pi and our custom board as well as nRF-DK (nRF52840-DK 1.0.0), we found following results:

 

S. No.

Test

Result with nRF-DK

Debug mode Result with nRF-DK

Result with Custom board

Debug mode Result with Custom board

1

R-Pi Thread NCP Connectivity.

NCP 

Connected

Device Running.

NCP 

Not-Connected

Device Running.

2

UART TX Trace On J-Tag Reset without R-Pi connection.

Hex data : 7E 80 06 00 72 FC 57 7E

Device Running.

No data

Device Running.

3

UART TX Trace On Switch Reset without R-Pi connection.

Hex data : 7E 80 06 00 71 67 65 7E

Device Running.

No data

Device Running.

4

UART TX Trace On Power-Reset without R-Pi connection.

Hex data : 7E 80 06 00 70 EE 74 7E

Device Running.

Hex data : 7E 80 06 00 70 EE 74 7E

Device Running.

 

Note: --

    1) NCP firmware PATH:  SDK_DIR\examples\thread\ncp\ftd\uart\pca10056\blank\ses

    2) To verify if UART TX and RX is working, we used: SDK_DIR\examples\peripheral\uart\pca10056\blank\ses, and were able to verify that UART communication was working fine.

    3) UART TX and RX is checked on PIN P0.06 and P0.08 respectively of nRF-DK and custom board.

please suggest 

Thank you

PNordic_nRF52840.pdfavan S K