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Benjamin Brammer
Senior II
November 27, 2019
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No signal on LPUART1 TX Signal on NUCLEO-L476RG

  • November 27, 2019
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Hello Everybody,

i am trying to use LPUART1 on the NUCLEO board. I attsched an oscilloscope probe on the TX pin and tried to send a simple "Hello world\n". But I don't get any signal from the pin. The data is correct transmitted in TDR register.

Does anybody have a hint on what is wrong there?

Here is my LPUART init routine:

/* USER CODE BEGIN 0 */
uint8_t LPUARTBufferTx[] = "Hallo Welt\n";
 
/* USER CODE END 0 */
 
UART_HandleTypeDef hlpuart1;
 
/* LPUART1 init function */
 
void MX_LPUART1_UART_Init(void)
{
 
 hlpuart1.Instance = LPUART1;
 hlpuart1.Init.BaudRate = 9600;
 hlpuart1.Init.WordLength = UART_WORDLENGTH_8B;
 hlpuart1.Init.StopBits = UART_STOPBITS_1;
 hlpuart1.Init.Parity = UART_PARITY_NONE;
 hlpuart1.Init.Mode = UART_MODE_TX_RX;
 hlpuart1.Init.HwFlowCtl = UART_HWCONTROL_NONE;
 hlpuart1.Init.OneBitSampling = UART_ONE_BIT_SAMPLE_DISABLE;
 hlpuart1.AdvancedInit.AdvFeatureInit = UART_ADVFEATURE_NO_INIT;
 if (HAL_UART_Init(&hlpuart1) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 
}
 
void HAL_UART_MspInit(UART_HandleTypeDef* uartHandle)
{
 
 GPIO_InitTypeDef GPIO_InitStruct = {0};
 if(uartHandle->Instance==LPUART1)
 {
 /* USER CODE BEGIN LPUART1_MspInit 0 */
 
 /* USER CODE END LPUART1_MspInit 0 */
 /* LPUART1 clock enable */
 __HAL_RCC_LPUART1_CLK_ENABLE();
 
 __HAL_RCC_GPIOC_CLK_ENABLE();
 /**LPUART1 GPIO Configuration 
 PC0 ------> LPUART1_RX
 PC1 ------> LPUART1_TX 
 */
 GPIO_InitStruct.Pin = GPIO_PIN_0|GPIO_PIN_1;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Mode = GPIO_MODE_AF_PP;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Pull = GPIO_NOPULL;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Speed = GPIO_SPEED_FREQ_VERY_HIGH;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Alternate = GPIO_AF8_LPUART1;
 HAL_GPIO_Init(GPIOC, &GPIO_InitStruct);
 
 /* USER CODE BEGIN LPUART1_MspInit 1 */
 
 /* USER CODE END LPUART1_MspInit 1 */
 }
}

and this is the transmit call:

if(HAL_UART_Transmit(&hlpuart1, &LPUARTBufferTx[0], 11, 100) != HAL_OK)
{
	Error_Handler();
}

best regards

Benjamin

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Best answer by Benjamin Brammer

OK. found the problem. I have a custom pin header attached. For some reason it has no connection...the simple fault here :)

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Benjamin Brammer
Benjamin BrammerAuthorBest answer
Senior II
November 27, 2019

OK. found the problem. I have a custom pin header attached. For some reason it has no connection...the simple fault here :)