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zbaird

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2006/10/20 13:17

sad tale

Through a hasty and most unfortunate oversight I seem to have fried my evaluation board. I downloaded one of the sample programs, but for the wrong device. Now poor Judd is dead, or seems to be, although I can still erase, download, and verify (sometimes it takes two attempts).

My question is whether I could have done something reversible (fuse/lock bits or equivalents), or whether I am probably the proud owner of a tiny boat anchor.

I hesitate to even mention this, but I will forgo the pain of the embarrassment if it serves as a warning to others to be careful with such things. If this contest is survival of the fittest, I'm a rabbit.

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LMI Eric

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2006/10/20 14:28

Re:sad tale

It would be surprising if you did any physical damage to the chip by programming it with the wrong code. If you're still able to connect with the debugger, I think you're board is probably fine.

It sounds to me like you're trying to program the board with the DK-LM3Sxxx projects instead of the EK-LM3S811 projects. The DK projects will not work on the evaluation platform (or at least show anything on the display) since the development kit uses a SPI-base LCD instead of an I2C-based OLED.

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zbaird

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2006/10/20 14:50

Re:sad tale

Well, Eric, you are an angel (or Santa, depending upon your religious/heathen index). It still works!

I think we need a really dumbed down set of instructions and/or general overview for people like me who get easily confused by the sea of options. Or maybe that's all just part of the contest...

Anyway, thanks so much!

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