RE: Strange debug behaviour in SES

Kampino — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:58:54 GMT

Thank you. I wonder because I removed the BLE code a few weeks ago and now I have the problems. Strange, but it seems that the error is gone now. I will test it a few more times.

RE: Strange debug behaviour in SES

Vidar Berg — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:46:46 GMT

Thanks. So the Softdevice must be present with your current linker configuration. The start address must be changed to '0' if you want the application to run without the Softdevice.

Note that you can use the Programmer app in nRF connect for desktop to see the memory laout.

RE: Strange debug behaviour in SES

Kampino — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:42:12 GMT

Yes. Please take a look at my project settings:

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      arm_target_device_name="nRF52832_xxAB"
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RE: Strange debug behaviour in SES

Vidar Berg — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:38:46 GMT

Sure you posted the correct image? It appears identical to the one I posted.

RE: Strange debug behaviour in SES

Kampino — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:36:45 GMT

Please take a look at the following settings:

RE: Strange debug behaviour in SES

Vidar Berg — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:31:18 GMT

You can check the FLASH_START address your linker settings.

RE: Strange debug behaviour in SES

Kampino — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:29:04 GMT

How can I check this?

RE: Strange debug behaviour in SES

Vidar Berg — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:22:21 GMT

I'm not sure what could have caused the hardfault then. Does your application start at address 0x0 in flash?

RE: Strange debug behaviour in SES

Kampino — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:20:36 GMT

No, I´m not using the Softdevice

RE: Strange debug behaviour in SES

Vidar Berg — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:16:49 GMT

Does your application use the Softdevice? It looks like it was not programmed in that case. Note that you can configure the SES project to load the Softdevice binary along with the application by pointing to the correct Softdevice as show by the image below.

RE: Strange debug behaviour in SES

Kampino — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 18:57:53 GMT

Edit: <The error is not gone>

RE: Strange debug behaviour in SES

Kampino — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 18:34:27 GMT

Hello, I run "Target" -> "Erase all" and start a new debug session and this happens:

RE: Strange debug behaviour in SES

Vidar Berg — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 11:54:17 GMT

Hi,

To see if it fixes the problem, please try to do a full chip erase, then re-program the applicaiton FW. From the screenshots it looks like the program is stuck at the beginning of flash, and probably not reaching your main() function.

Best regads,

Vidar