{
 "id": "usb-serial-jtag-cdc-not-ready-until-186ms",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "USB-Serial-JTAG CDC not ready until ~186ms; early prints silently lost",
 "symptom": "Serial.print() calls in setup() or at global-scope initialization do not appear in console output. Measurements appear impossible (negative time deltas). First visible marker arrives ~186ms after RTS release, regardless of when code tried to print.",
 "hw": [
  "esp32-s3"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "arduino",
  "esp-idf"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "intent": "Timestamp firmware execution from cold boot for latency measurement",
 "date": "2026-08-23",
 "status": "provisional",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check",
  "body"
 ],
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}