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DMcNa.45
Associate
October 12, 2019
Question

I perhaps over-eagerly broke off the ST-Link portion of my Nucleo STM32F401 board, thinking that I could use it as a stand-alone ST-Link, but still program the rest of the Nucleo with it.

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Looking at the manual, however, I don't see the SWD pins on the Nucleo board - are they internal-only, and now gone with the break-off operation? If they are still available, for programming via the ST-Link, which pins are they? Did I miss some aspect of the documentation? Thanks!

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Tesla DeLorean
Guru
October 12, 2019

PA13 and PA14 should be the SWD connections, they should be exposed at some of the pin headers

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DMcNa.45
DMcNa.45Author
Associate
October 12, 2019

Wow - good find! Between those two (which I assume are the SWD Clock and SWD I/O, maybe in that order), and the VDD, Ground, and Reset pins that are already pretty clear, I should be set. Thanks!

Tesla DeLorean
Guru
October 12, 2019

Pin definitions could be found in Data Sheet, or on Nucleo Schematic

PA13 JTMS-SWDIO

PA14 JTCK-SWCLK

PB3 JTDO-SWO

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Bill Dempsey
Associate III
October 13, 2019

The steps for using it standalone are in the Nucleo manual. Look for the section about "external" application. It was in section 5.2.4 of the last Nucleo manual that I have.