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STM32F3Discovery power-up delay, MCO clock drop-out

M. Seynen
Associate II

When powering a F3Discovery (rev.D) board through the USB-USER port, there is a 2 second gap in the MCO clock signal (coming form the ST-LINK chip). See sceenshot1 (ch1=5V , ch2=MCO at SB12). When power is applied there is about 20ms worth of clock-cycles, then a gap of 2 seconds....

When powering the board with the USB ST-LINK, the gap is much shorter (about 300ms).... see screenshot2.

When using a F3Discovery (rev.B) the MCO clock has no dropout! See screenshot3.

Version of the ST-LINK firmware is latest 'V2.J34.M25 STM Debug + VCP)'.

The rev.B board has 'V2.J25.S0 STM Debugger', that I don't want to update, it might also start dropping the MCO-clock.

Because of this huge gap in the clock, plugging-in a USB-device (in Windows) gives your the dreaded 'Device Not Recognized'-errors. Running the same FW on the rev.b. works perfectly!

Thought I might share this information, anybody seen this as-well?

Best Regards,

Seynen

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M. Seynen
Associate II

In addition to the MCO, the ST-LINK also keeps the T_NRST line low during the same interval.

Why, why so long?