W7500P wrong internal RC oscillator frequency

Question

Hi. We produced several working devices with W7500P controlled by superior MCU. The MCU is able to switch W7500P to BOOT mode a upload firmware into it. Now, we experinece problems with newly made devices. Sometimes, we can upload firmware into W7500P but our application doesn´t run properly - then we can observe on PA_02 (CLKOUT) wrong internal RC oscillator frequency 11.3 MHz or similar. Somtimes, we aren’t able to program W7500P firmware in BOOT mode at all - we can’t receive ‘U’ character as response during Baud rate detection inside W7500P boot program. Power supply 3.3V is smooth. Any ideas where can be the problem, what can we do? RC oscillator is not calibrated? What is the meaning of responses from W7500P to test character ‘U’ during Baud rate detection in boot mode, can we calculate frequency inaccuracy from it? Thanks in advance for any help.

scott · Answer

Dear @cauves It’s a very unusual situation. In boot mode, the clock frequency is 8 MHz. Does all of your W7500P show symptoms like this? Or is it just one? I think your W7500P is shocked. So it doesn’t working normally. Is there a cause of shock in your environment? Scott

AlexeiBazlaev · Answer

Hello! I have faced with the same ISP programming issue on few W7500P microcontrollers! In most cases ISP programming is completed successfuly. But i found few W7500P chips with the same bug. When i send “U” (0x55) command few times to start the programming process the W7500P returns errorneous bytes. I have no idea what they can mean: sent 0x55 received 0x5B 0x7F -1 sent 0x55 received 0x66 0x7D -1 sent 0x55 received 0x13 0x7C -1 sent 0x55 received 0x7C -1 sent 0x55 received 0x60 0x7E -1 sent 0x55 received 0x7E -1 sent 0x55 received 0x7C -1 sent 0x55 received 0x60 -1 sent 0x55 received 0x40 -1 I know that successful negotiations must be like that: sent 0x55 received 0x19 0x7F -1 sent 0x55 received 0x66 0x7A -1 sent 0x55 received 0x55 0x31 0x2E 0x32 -1 The last answer means the version of the bootloader U1.2 Please, i need technical support! How can we fix errorneous negotiations?

AlexeiBazlaev · Answer

Thank you for reply! I’ve tried to change baud rate but it didn’t help! At 57600 baud rate chip returns only first valid symbol 0x55 but do not returns other valid symbols (0x31 0x2E 0x32 0x0D). As the result no further communication is possible.

AlexeiBazlaev · Answer

Hi everybody! I have found that the internal RC oscillators have frequencies 10,55MHz 11,13MHz and 11,2MHz on those defected chips! Now I’m sure the problem is the same as described by cauves. It is very disappointing that the amount of defected chips is so great in party! The 3 of 13 are defected. The only consolation is that these chips can be programmed through the SWD interface.