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weird behavior on VDD > 4.1v

HI , 

On my costume board works fine when VDD connected to ~3.6v.

it starts to behave differently when voltage is ~4.1v. (Flashing fails / SW not loading ).

my VDD_GPIO is 1.8v.

Thanks,

Moshe

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  • I got the full layout in a private ticket (251170). Copying my comment in that ticket for reference:

    I think the problem is that you are using +BATT as the reference voltage on the debugger. The debugger sets the SWD lines to the same voltage as the vtref voltage, but on the nRF91 the SWD interface is connected to the VDD_GPIO domain (1.8V), so then you will be powering the VDD_GPIO domain through the SWD lines at 4.1V. Which will in the end destroy the chip.

    Further you should remove the pullup on the reset pin (R6). The reset pin is internally connected to a 2.2V domain with it's own internal pullup, so by pulling it further up to VDD, you will get leakage current. It can be left unconnected when not in use.

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