XO1.5 WLAN SR ECO
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This describes a change to B3 prototypes of the XO-1.5 motherboard. It fixes a silicon error which will not be fixed. Boards without this ECO will not reliably maintain their WLAN upon resuming, and may crash hard instead.
This only applies to XO-1.5 B3 phase motherboards.
Problem Description
There appear to be three problems: a glitch on the power control line for the WLAN card, a drooping WLAN_RESET# line, and finally, too slow a rise time on the +3.3V rail when resuming.
Power Control Glitch
The glitch is a surprise, and is present in both OFW and Linux. It happens early enough in the resume process (before PCIRESET# has been deasserted) that it is caused by hardware. We take a look at it by disconnecting the motherboard pullup resistor on WLAN_EN#, and instead adding a 0.1 uF cap (see Driving Force thumbnail). This transforms the glitch in the WLAN_EN# signal to one which looks like it is driven by a very high impedance driver, such as the built-in pullup resistor.
If we instead add a resistor between the VX855 output and the inverter, along with a filtering capacitor to ground, we can slow down the turn-off process enough that legitimate software usage is allowed, but this glitch is eliminated.
WLAN_RESET
We also need to populate a resistor to pull-up WLAN_RESET# to a sane value. This was predictable, and a resistor position (R120) is pre-wired.
+3.3V Rise Time
Finally, if the rise time of the +3.3V rail isn't fast enough, the card detect debouncer in the SDIO interfaces takes very long (> 500 mS) to settle on resume. This rise time is determined by a capacitor in the power switch (C253) which needs to be decreased in size.
Procedure
- Remove R325.
- Cut the trace between Q38, pin 2 and R325 (disconnecting Q38, pin 2 from the WLAN_EN# signal).
- Add a 47K resistor between WLAN_EN# (available at R325) and Q38, pin 2.
- Add a 0.1uF, SMD-0402 resistor between pins 1 and 2 of Q38.
- Populate R120 with a 4.7K resistor.
- Replace C253 with a 0.01 uF SMD0402 capacitor.
