For touchGFX application, I have created a project for implementing touchGFX(STM32F411RE) with external SPI flash memory(W25Q32) but I am facing a problem in programming the chip with an external loader but the external loader working well in using as alo

[User16438042334827474767]

19:47:11 : STM32CubeProgrammer API v2.5.0

19:47:17 : ST-LINK SN : 0670FF535155878281143214

19:47:17 : ST-LINK FW : V2J38M27

19:47:17 : Board : NUCLEO-F091RC

19:47:17 : Voltage : 0.02V

19:47:17 : SWD freq : 4000 KHz

19:47:17 : Connect mode: Under Reset

19:47:17 : Reset mode : Hardware reset

19:47:17 : Device ID : 0x431

19:47:17 : Revision ID : Rev A

19:47:18 : UPLOADING OPTION BYTES DATA ...

19:47:18 : Bank : 0x00

19:47:18 : Address : 0x40023c14

19:47:18 : Size : 8 Bytes

19:47:18 : UPLOADING ...

19:47:18 : Size : 1024 Bytes

19:47:18 : Address : 0x8000000

19:47:18 : Read progress:

19:47:18 : Data read successfully

19:47:18 : Time elapsed during the read operation is: 00:00:00.009

19:47:34 : Read File: C:\Users\micro_m_i_s\WorkDesk\Practice\ST\STM32F411RET6\TouchGFX_STM32F411_W25Q32_Example01\Debug\TouchGFX_STM32F411_W25Q32_Example01.elf

19:47:34 : Number of segments: 2

19:47:34 : segment[0]: address= 0x8000000, size= 0x142A4

19:47:34 : segment[1]: address= 0x90000000, size= 0x7528

19:47:55 : Memory Programming ...

19:47:55 : Opening and parsing file: TouchGFX_STM32F411_W25Q32_Example01.elf

19:47:55 : File : TouchGFX_STM32F411_W25Q32_Example01.elf

19:47:55 : Size : 112588 Bytes

19:47:55 : Address : 0x08000000 

19:47:55 : Erasing memory corresponding to segment 0:

19:47:55 : Erasing internal memory sectors [0 4]

19:47:57 : Erasing memory corresponding to segment 1:

19:47:57 : Erasing external memory sectors [0 7]

19:47:58 : Download in Progress:

19:47:58 : Error: failed to download Segment[0]

19:47:58 : Error: failed to download the File

[Alexandre RENOUX]

Hello MMadh.1,

Strangely enough, you mention using STM32F411RE but the ST-link says your board is NUCLEO-F091RC.

Are you using CubeProgrammer or CubeIDE to download your file ? I recommend you try reading your Flash, erasing sectors and downloading some .hex or .elf file directly using CubeProgrammer.

/Alexandre

[Tesla DeLorean]

Likely using the NUCLEO in lieu of a stand-alone ST-LINK/V2 pod, cheaper/available..

The 0x431 Device ID is consistent with it talking too an STM32F411RE.

Debugging External Loaders can be a challenge, but all the pins/peripheral can be used, for example diagnostic/progress information via USART

[User16438042334827474767]

@Alexandre RENOUX​ NUCLEO-F091RC onboard STlink was used for programming the STM32F411RE MCU and the problem was found in the external loader Loader_Src.c file.I am just added HAL_ResumeTick() and HAL_SuspendTick() functions in every operations.working project file is attached.

[KHeye.1]

I ran into this issue a while back and IIRC it is a known issue with internal flash interacting with the stm32programmer library.

The fix is to add "monitor flash mass_erase" to initialization commands in debug configurations > startup