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Christian Fl�gel wrote:
> We have three Mica2dots which do not work anymore. Two of them are not 
> even discoverable (uisp cannot detect them) and usip supplies the 
> following error:

 Did you read this?

 http://www.xbow.com/Support/Support_pdf_files/UISPHELP.pdf

 Here we have had a lot of similar issues with our Atmega128-based products, one
of them being fuses taking life of their own and rebelling for no apparent
reason (just turning the device off and on). Some chips may be brought back only
via the parallel programming mode (neither SPI nor JTAG will do since the fuses
affected may be exactly the ones that disable these modes or change the clock
configuration), others are gone to oblivion forever.

 I don't know if it is possible to use the parallel programming mode with the
mica2dot design --for example using a parallel STK programmer-- since it takes a
lot of pins, 12V must be applied to the RESET pin and not all the boards take
this in consideration...

 It appears that newer Atmega128 masks correct some of the earlier problems,
specially one concerning the LPM instruction --last year I lost ~3 weeks of my
precious time debugging a *big* program and finally the problem turned out to be
this nasty errata that corrupted the Flash memory. However some well known bugs
are still there...

 HaPpY hAcKiNg :P

- --
PabloBleyerKocik /"I believed that people would become programmers
 pbleyer        / and not need companies as much. You can see how
  @embedded.cl / laughable that was." -- Steve Wozniak
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