Has anybody had any problems with the Cypress 811HS USB Host chip? I am having some strange stability problems.
Sometimes I reboot, the chip would work perfectly. Other times (80% of times), when I reboot the chip, I can successfully write to a memory area on chip and read the same data back out. However, if I try to read and write to the control registers, I get garbage. The strange thing is that when the system works, it works perfectly for as long as I keep the power on, and when it doesn't work, no matter how long I leave it on, it won't "fix"/stabilize itself.
Things I have tried:
-adding large (470u) capacitor to power supply
-adding 4 small (0.01u) capacitors to power supply (power supply currently swings 3.0 to 3.6V)
-Tried using Epson, Citizen, EMC, Fox 48 MHz oscillators. They all oscillate at 48MHz, however, I see a lot of overshoot (10V+ pk to pk) in original wave form. The waveforms are also sinusoidal, or heavily skewered squarewave (one big overshoot that covers then entire plateau). I also tried to process the signal by feeding it to 3 diodes in series for a theoretical drop of 2.1V, which strangely, limits the voltage swing to about -.5V to 4V. Note that I might be seeing some artifacts of the oscilloscope for mine is only rated at
300Mhz with a 200MHz probe.-Tried the 48MHz Crystal circuit as described in datasheet. Also is unstable.
-Tried to process the signal to give it sharper edges, but can't find anything that switches fast enough. Each "high" signal is only 10ns long. CMOS inverter didn't work. Simple BJT switch didn't work. Comparators didn't work.
-Of course, I've tried all of the above with 2 Cypress Host chip. One is more flaky by the other, but both are by no means stable.
-Also tried powering the cypress chip separately from the rest of the circuit, although the 3.0-3.6V noise is still present.
Does anybody have a solution to this?