Program freezes on SVCALL

[Caleb]

My program is freezing at some point in the initialization procedure.

It is freezing in our function that initializes the ble stack.

This is only happening to one of my devices so I am led to believe this is a hardware issue.

Stepping through the code led to the SVCAL function, and putting a debug statement here showed it is the last item that is called.

I did look at  NRF52840 ble_App_uart_c example hangs in first start and debug mode (SDK 17.1.0)
And even without debugging (which isn't usually an issue) the program still hangs.

Investigating the sd_softdevice_enable function I found that the function definition of sd_softdevice_enable() could not be found using SEGGER's find references or find definition tools. 

Is there a hardware issue that could cause trouble with the softdevice?

Thanks

[Susheel Nuguru]

When you halt the debugger, it should be possible to see in the "Disassembly Window" the address of the current instruction being processed. Can you take a note of that address and see if this is in the application address scope or the softdevice address?

[Caleb]

Hello Susheel. Thanks for your insight. For now we have decided to move on since this is an isolated incident. If it pops up again I'll return to this thread.

[Susheel Nuguru]

Caleb Dueck, Thanks for letting us know.