Hi Robert, I thought I had checked for power supply issues and not found anything, but I checked again and found problems. Our cape board powers the beaglebone through the VDD_5V pins on the header.
Here are the VDD_5V (blue) and VDD_3V3B (yellow) rails when the beaglebone is powered from our custom cape, captured at a point during flashing: <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EBhCzNStAqA/V322CKFxxjI/AAAAAAAAAKo/iLdc--L8XlAkpezfA97WvPimrM6djzLvACLcB/s1600/VDD_5VandVCC_3V3BSpike3.png> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--5ZnqjQBwPE/V322FNIMPFI/AAAAAAAAAKs/i-t4gxU0UuYtlRq427FYuJP1XSEo9KevwCLcB/s1600/VDD_5VandVCC_3V3BSpike4.png> So, we've found a problem. But here is what those same rails look like when the beaglebone is powered by a 5A lab supply through the barrel jack, without our custom cape connected - it's interesting that there are still significant (albeit much smaller) fluctuations. Are they large enough to be a problem? I wonder whether the beaglebone has enough local capacitance to handle the eMMC's power demands. <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qKEWPJOYYQs/V322TTKacRI/AAAAAAAAAKw/LQpcLiOtvU0C3AXJAP7OmFBO9Y8YFlxaQCLcB/s1600/BenchSupplyVDD_5VandVCC_3V3BSpike3.png> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Mkjpi_c7DAk/V322W7WQYbI/AAAAAAAAAK0/XyDGRYQoaIYYle0mWiYRWc8EDBdY9gSawCLcB/s1600/BenchSupplyVDD_5VandVCC_3V3BSpike4.png> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mV_zjIGnWmg/V322aAzd15I/AAAAAAAAAK4/-eHHLUlfY7whIkh7xglC_fbW7wfqkx_4gCLcB/s1600/BenchSupplyVDD_5VandVCC_3V3BSpike5.png> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2Va53Bhhbkw/V322dKWg9RI/AAAAAAAAAK8/cmt0Ki7HN54eUsuthwxgGlPqQvP0iVGvgCLcB/s1600/BenchSupplyVDD_5VandVCC_3V3BSpike6.png> Thank you for your help, Joshua Collins -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/815d709d-9b51-495b-a8b9-c29b213bd0b7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
