My company is currently having an issues with quite a few of our devices that use the BCM20736s BLE controller. The controller on each device was programmed one time successfully. After we discovered that the radios were not communicating, wireless or UART via traces, we attempted to reprogram the controller and failed.
These devices were programmed via the WICED IDE. The make target used was mistakenly for the 20737 platform instead of the 20736 platform. The crystal warm up time of the 20737 platform was left at the default value of 2800.
I have attempted to recover the radios using the following procedure with no success:
Power off the device
Short SDA to GND
Connect the HCI UART to the PC
Power up the device
Reset the controller for ~3s
Disconnect SDA from GND
Attempt to program by replacing 'download' with 'recover' in the make target. (I've also tried using Chipload.exe using -nodlminidriver)
All of these devices appear to function when made with the 20736 platform with the crystal warm up time set to 5000.
Is there anyway I may be able to salvage these chips?
