Question about STM32F4, DISCOVERY, EVAL BOARD with IAR EWARM 6.5.3

[mark239955]

Posted on April 06, 2014 at 08:24

Hi everyone,

I am a newbie to arm microcontroller and STM32 product. recently I want to buy a STM32F4-Discovery Board to play with arm chip. That board uses STM32F429I arm chip, and my toolchain is IAR EWARM 6.5.3, in the project option->general, I can not find this specific chip in the list, so my question is:

1. Is that ok I use such version IAR tool to compile and make STM32F429I arm chip project?

2. If yes to question1, what do I need to select for that ''target'' tab in project otpion->general. What I am currently do is tick ''Core'' as ''Cortex-M4F'' rather than choose a specific device, and I can compile and make the demo project successfully, but I have no idea the hex file generated under this configuration is proper or not.

Thanks for all your time.

Kind Regards

Mark

[mark239955]

Posted on April 08, 2014 at 00:13

Hi guys,

I read some documents in ST website and noticed those example are supported by IAR EWARM v6.6 or later.

I am new to arm programming, I can not fully understand the code in examples, anyone can recommend useful textbook for arm programming?

Cheers

Mark

[Tesla DeLorean]

Posted on April 08, 2014 at 02:54

http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Guide-Cortex%C2%AE-M3-Cortex%C2%AE-M4-Processors/dp/0124080820/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396919118&sr=1-1&keywords=joseph+yiu+cortex

has several books on Cortex-Mx cores, I'd recommend these as a counterpoint to the ARM TRM (Technical Reference Manual).

For assembly language

http://www.amazon.com/Assembly-Language-Programming-Architecture-Mazidi-ebook/dp/B00ENJPNTW/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396919064&sr=1-1&keywords=arm+mazidi

book gives good coverage, and is well priced, although not focused on Cortex-Mx platforms.

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=gibson&sts=t&tn=arm+assembly

is good,

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=William+Hohl&sts=t&tn=arm+assembly

isn't bad but rather ARM7/9 centric, and very expensive in the hard cover, International versions from India would save a lot of money, and are arguably identical. Hohl seems to be the prefer text book at US Colleges which is why it's stupidly expensive.

For embedded firmware I like

http://www.amazon.com/Making-Embedded-Systems-Patterns-Software/dp/1449302149/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396918856&sr=1-1&keywords=elecia+white

and Jack Ganssel.