New to STM32 microcontrollers, need some guidance & tutorial

[hu]

Posted on October 04, 2016 at 03:55

Hello,

I am quite familiar with the AVR microcontrollers and the Arduino framework but a complete noob in STM32s. I've already asked a few questions about STM32s on another forum, but I think it's not really enough.  Here's a few questions that I want to ask first:1. How am I supposed to program an STM32? I am interested in the ''native'' way of programming an STM32 (not with Arduino)2. Which development board should I use? By far I only know that the Maple board from Leaflabs is STM32 centered and Arduino framework compatible. Are Nucleo boards good? 3. What software/IDE/hardware should I have in order to use an STM32? any help would be appreciated,thank you 🙂

[Nesrine M_O]

Posted on October 04, 2016 at 10:20

Hi hu.richard,

 Welcome to STM32 community.1.How am I supposed to program an STM32? I am interested in the ''native'' way of programming an STM32 (not with Arduino)I recommend you to download the

http://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/products/development-tools/software-development-tools/stm32-software-development-tools/stm32-configurators-and-code-generators/stm32cubemx.html

which is a graphical software configuration tool that allows generating C initialization code using graphical wizards2.Which development board should I use? By far I only know that the Maple board from Leaflabs is STM32 centered and Arduino framework compatible. Are Nucleo boards good? As novice user, I recommend you to use STM32 Nucelo board is a low-cost and easy-to-use development platform used to quickly evaluate and start a development with an STM32I'd highly recommend you also to have a look to these two documents, they provide guidelines on how to build and run a sample application around the STM32 Nucleo board.•

http://www.st.com/content/ccc/resource/technical/document/user_manual/1b/03/1b/b4/88/20/4e/cd/DM00105928.pdf/files/DM00105928.pdf/jcr:content/translations/en.DM00105928.pdf

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http://www.st.com/content/ccc/resource/technical/document/user_manual/98/2e/fa/4b/e0/82/43/b7/DM00105823.pdf/files/DM00105823.pdf/jcr:content/translations/en.DM00105823.pdf

3.What software/IDE/hardware should I have in order to use an STM32? STMicroelectronics STM32 families of 32-bit ARM® Cortex® -M core-based microcontrollers are supported by a complete range of software tools:•EWARM toolchain•Keil MDK-ARM toolchain•The System Workbench toolchain, called

http://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/products/development-tools/software-development-tools/stm32-software-development-tools/stm32-ides/sw4stm32.html

, is a free multi-OS software development environment based on Eclipse, which supports the full range of STM32 microcontrollers and associated boards.-Syrine-

[hu]

Posted on October 09, 2016 at 03:47

Hi Syrine,

   Thank you for the reply!I have a problem with running STM32cubemx on Mac OS X. It says that I need to install java runtime environment 1.7 or newer. But I already installed Java 1.8 and re-installed but it still doesn't work. Any ideas how to fix it?What is the difference between all the toolchain software that you listed and stm32cubemx?What kind of programming would I be doing in these IDE? Does they include a high-level programming framework/library by default or they need you to include them your selves? (I would like to know about this because I don't really want to do low-level programming with this kind of unfamiliar & complex microcontrollers : )