Any way to determine programmatically what physical pins are on a device?
Is there any way to determine programmatically what physical pins exist on a device? Or, somewhere within the HAL libraries where its defined?
For example, the STM32F411 chip in the UFQFPN48 package only has the PC13, PC14, and PC15 pins on the C port. Is there a clever way to determine this? I have determined that if I try to set the PC0 pin as output high, and it doesn't exist, it still reads as low when I probe its value. However, this behavior is the same if the pin was physically connected to ground on the board. So I have no way of differentiating a pin that doesn't exist from a pin physically grounded on the board.
The HAL libraries are nice enough to not define ports if they don't exist. For example, GPIOF is not #defined on the STM32F411xE, but it is defined for chips that have those pins. So that's somewhat helpful, but doesn't get me all the way there.
The DEV_ID field gives some information on the chip family, but not package size. I don't see any other useful identifiers apart from that. The size of the flash is there, but unhelpful.
Any other clever ideas I'm missing?
