G120 Custom Board on 0.10 Not Recognized on USB

TinyCLR OS
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I have a custom board using the G120 that works fine on the .NETMF and wanted to play with the latest release of TinyCLR OS 0.10. I have both the USB host and USB client on the board, that works fine in NETMF. I loaded bootloader v2 using TeraTerm per docs no problem loading it. Once I load the bootloader v2, then I connect using TinyCLR to update/load the Firmware, which works fine as you can see on the pic. Once reset, I am not able to see the board in TinyCLR config under USB to proceed to program it. More over, once I load the firmware (G120 Firmware v0.10.0.glb), I have some LEDs on the board, in 3-5 seconds all goes dim, as if “lights off” situation. Not sure what to make of it. If I boot using the LDR0 + reset, I get COM3, and I can use TinyCLR config tool to connect to it, as you can see on the image. I can then update firmware, or run, or Erase it.

G120

I did the same process with my Cobra III, and was able to see it under USB as G120_G120, but not my board.

Question: Do I need to customize the G120 build to my board or maybe I am wrong?

Any advice to get me in the right direction?

Thanks.

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  1. When you loaded Bootloader v2, did you use VCOM USB or Serial port?

  2. Is your module G120 or G120E?

  3. Check pin P2.1. If this pin is low => Serial debug on G120 but USB debug on G120E.

Somehow your custom board drives this pin that effects to debugger mode.

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I loaded Bootloader v2 using the VCOM, as I only have USB on the board. I used the LDR0 + LDR1 => reset to start, and saw COM3 to connect in Tera Term. I used that, issued erase, and upload procedure for v2. After I reset the board now any time I do LDR0 = > Reset I can see COM3, and in TinyCLR config tool on the Loader tab, can connect to the board as shown in the picture. I can do the update via the Loader tab to latest, and that works fine.

Windows makes the sound when it recognizes the device, but I only see the COM3 no G120_G120 like I se on my Cobra III.

I do have G120, and looking at the schematic I see that we used P2.1 and is tied to GND by default. I can remove that easily to test, as that function on it is not critical on that port.

Should I not be able to still work in serial? This same setup works fine with NETMF no issues?

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If you do have G120 then P2.1 is low because it tied to GND, it should be Serial Debug all the time.

So you won’t see G120_G120 which is correct.

Try to put NETMF, I think NETMF should have same issue.

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NETMF works fine on this board, have built 100s of these boards and have not had issues at all, and is why I am confused. Will try to remove the GND from that pin and look at it.

If I rebuild the G120 port of TinyCLR, can I update the debug button specs to change it? You have them currently as below, but I am thinking I can change it? If not, can I simply change the pin from 2, 1 to another one to make it work only to get it in USB mode?
…
#define DEBUGGER_SELECTOR_PIN PIN(2, 1)
#define G120_DEBUGGER_SELECTOR_PULL TinyCLR_Gpio_PinDriveMode::InputPullUp
…

Thanks.

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Shouldn’t change to other pins unless you know that pin is connected to/from where.

Easiest way change to this:

#define G120_DEBUGGER_SELECTOR_USB_STATE TinyCLR_Gpio_PinValue::Low

That is it.

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That did the trick to change the value to Low, it is all good now. Thanks for getting me on the right track!

Now I can play with the board and latest build.