Is there a good "Getting Started" document for writing code for the ST25R3911B-DISCO board?

[RMurr.2]

 I cant seem to find the correct IDE, etc. Looking to use something like eclipse and the USB. Any good documentation would be helpful, thanks!

[Ulysses HERNIOSUS · Accepted solution]

Hi RMurr.2,

it depends what you are pursuing. If you want to control the ST25R3911B-DISCO board from PC then there are two possibilities:

1. Contained in the GUI are Visual Studio solutions showcasing control of the board using C++,C# and Python.
2. A little bit more higher layer is the ST25 SDK which can control the ST25R3911B-DISCO board (among others)

However if you want to develop something embedded I recommend to rather use X-NUCLEO-NFC05A1 + NUCLEO-L476 with one of

1. X-CUBE-NFC5
2. ST25 Embedded NFC lib

Best Regards, Ulysses

[DDve.1]

@Ulysses HERNIOSUS : can you please specify where exactly mentioned C# solution is located? After installing GUI I have folder c:\Program Files (x86)\STMicroelectronics\ST25R3911B_Discovery_GUI\ , but no any sources on C# included.

[Ulysses HERNIOSUS]

Hi,

C:\Program Files (x86)\STMicroelectronics\ST25R3911B_Discovery_GUI\Dll3911_Demos.sln.lnk

which should point to something like:

C:\Users\$(USER)\Documents\STMicroelectronics\ST25R3911B_Discovery_GUI\DLL_Demos\Dll3911_Demos.sln

BR, Ulysses

[DDve.1]

Ulysses, thank you, found!! But... why it's spreaded across the disk?? Isn't it logical to put everything under one folder? I lost my mind trying to find *.cs files. :[

[Ulysses HERNIOSUS]

Hi,

C:\Program Files... is generally not writable thus an MS Project cannot be compiled when installed there and user cannot make any source code changes. Thus the sources and project in a user folder - with a link on the installation to make finding it easier. It also has an entry in the StartMenu...

Maybe it could be made more obvious - how would you have found it?

BR, Ulysses

[DDve.1]

From my side it could be better to have everything under one folder. Believe you or not, but developers are not helpless kittens 🙂 they are able to copy project into own folder (they will move project anyway, so why to worry?) One unnoticeable Dll3911_Demos.sln.lnk is harder to see than search *.cs/*.sln files. Just my IMHO.