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STM32F042K6 USART not working

bongumsa12
Associate III
The STM32F042K6 has been giving me issues lately when it comes to using the UART module. USART1 is not working and USART2 only transmits. Has anyone encountered the same problem? I have attached a sample code I was using to test USART2 for both transmission and reception.
 
 
#include "main.h"


/* Private variables ---------------------------------------------------------*/
UART_HandleTypeDef huart1;
UART_HandleTypeDef huart2;


/* Private function prototypes -----------------------------------------------*/
void SystemClock_Config(void);
static void MX_GPIO_Init(void);
static void MX_USART2_UART_Init(void);
static void MX_USART1_UART_Init(void);

/**
* @brief The application entry point.
* @retval int
*/
int main(void)
{

/* Reset of all peripherals, Initializes the Flash interface and the Systick. */
HAL_Init();

SystemClock_Config();
MX_GPIO_Init();
MX_USART2_UART_Init();
MX_USART1_UART_Init();
/* USER CODE BEGIN 2 */
 
// modbus_memory modbus_rtu_memory;
// modbus_memory *modbus_rtu_memory_ptr = &modbus_rtu_memory;

// uint8_t *modbus_rtu_base = &(modbus_rtu_memory_ptr -> coils[0]);

// memset(&modbus_rtu_memory, 0, sizeof(modbus_rtu_memory)); // initialize modbus memory locations to 0

/* set up modbus slave */

/* setup complete */

/* USER CODE END 2 */

/* Infinite loop */
/* USER CODE BEGIN WHILE */
while (1)
{
/* USER CODE END WHILE */
char buffer[12];
HAL_UART_Receive(&huart2, buffer, sizeof(buffer), HAL_MAX_DELAY);

HAL_UART_Transmit(&huart2, buffer, sizeof(buffer), HAL_MAX_DELAY);
/* USER CODE BEGIN 3 */
}
/* USER CODE END 3 */
}

/**
* @brief System Clock Configuration
* @retval None
*/
void SystemClock_Config(void)
{
RCC_OscInitTypeDef RCC_OscInitStruct = {0};
RCC_ClkInitTypeDef RCC_ClkInitStruct = {0};
RCC_PeriphCLKInitTypeDef PeriphClkInit = {0};

/** Initializes the RCC Oscillators according to the specified parameters
* in the RCC_OscInitTypeDef structure.
*/
RCC_OscInitStruct.OscillatorType = RCC_OSCILLATORTYPE_HSI;
RCC_OscInitStruct.HSIState = RCC_HSI_ON;
RCC_OscInitStruct.HSICalibrationValue = RCC_HSICALIBRATION_DEFAULT;
RCC_OscInitStruct.PLL.PLLState = RCC_PLL_NONE;
if (HAL_RCC_OscConfig(&RCC_OscInitStruct) != HAL_OK)
{
Error_Handler();
}

/** Initializes the CPU, AHB and APB buses clocks
*/
RCC_ClkInitStruct.ClockType = RCC_CLOCKTYPE_HCLK|RCC_CLOCKTYPE_SYSCLK
|RCC_CLOCKTYPE_PCLK1;
RCC_ClkInitStruct.SYSCLKSource = RCC_SYSCLKSOURCE_HSI;
RCC_ClkInitStruct.AHBCLKDivider = RCC_SYSCLK_DIV1;
RCC_ClkInitStruct.APB1CLKDivider = RCC_HCLK_DIV1;

if (HAL_RCC_ClockConfig(&RCC_ClkInitStruct, FLASH_LATENCY_0) != HAL_OK)
{
Error_Handler();
}
PeriphClkInit.PeriphClockSelection = RCC_PERIPHCLK_USART1;
PeriphClkInit.Usart1ClockSelection = RCC_USART1CLKSOURCE_SYSCLK;
if (HAL_RCCEx_PeriphCLKConfig(&PeriphClkInit) != HAL_OK)
{
Error_Handler();
}
}

/**
* @brief USART1 Initialization Function
* @PAram None
* @retval None
*/
static void MX_USART1_UART_Init(void)
{

/* USER CODE BEGIN USART1_Init 0 */

/* USER CODE END USART1_Init 0 */

/* USER CODE BEGIN USART1_Init 1 */

/* USER CODE END USART1_Init 1 */
huart1.Instance = USART1;
huart1.Init.BaudRate = 115200;
huart1.Init.WordLength = UART_WORDLENGTH_8B;
huart1.Init.StopBits = UART_STOPBITS_1;
huart1.Init.Parity = UART_PARITY_NONE;
huart1.Init.Mode = UART_MODE_TX_RX;
huart1.Init.HwFlowCtl = UART_HWCONTROL_NONE;
huart1.Init.OverSampling = UART_OVERSAMPLING_16;
huart1.Init.OneBitSampling = UART_ONE_BIT_SAMPLE_DISABLE;
huart1.AdvancedInit.AdvFeatureInit = UART_ADVFEATURE_NO_INIT;
if (HAL_UART_Init(&huart1) != HAL_OK)
{
Error_Handler();
}
/* USER CODE BEGIN USART1_Init 2 */

/* USER CODE END USART1_Init 2 */

}

/**
* @brief USART2 Initialization Function
* @PAram None
* @retval None
*/
static void MX_USART2_UART_Init(void)
{

/* USER CODE BEGIN USART2_Init 0 */

/* USER CODE END USART2_Init 0 */

/* USER CODE BEGIN USART2_Init 1 */

/* USER CODE END USART2_Init 1 */
huart2.Instance = USART2;
huart2.Init.BaudRate = 115200;
huart2.Init.WordLength = UART_WORDLENGTH_8B;
huart2.Init.StopBits = UART_STOPBITS_1;
huart2.Init.Parity = UART_PARITY_NONE;
huart2.Init.Mode = UART_MODE_TX_RX;
huart2.Init.HwFlowCtl = UART_HWCONTROL_NONE;
huart2.Init.OverSampling = UART_OVERSAMPLING_16;
huart2.Init.OneBitSampling = UART_ONE_BIT_SAMPLE_DISABLE;
huart2.AdvancedInit.AdvFeatureInit = UART_ADVFEATURE_NO_INIT;
if (HAL_UART_Init(&huart2) != HAL_OK)
{
Error_Handler();
}
/* USER CODE BEGIN USART2_Init 2 */

/* USER CODE END USART2_Init 2 */

}

/**
* @brief GPIO Initialization Function
* @PAram None
* @retval None
*/
static void MX_GPIO_Init(void)
{
/* USER CODE BEGIN MX_GPIO_Init_1 */
/* USER CODE END MX_GPIO_Init_1 */

/* GPIO Ports Clock Enable */
__HAL_RCC_GPIOA_CLK_ENABLE();

/* USER CODE BEGIN MX_GPIO_Init_2 */
/* USER CODE END MX_GPIO_Init_2 */
}

/* USER CODE BEGIN 4 */

/* USER CODE END 4 */

/**
* @brief This function is executed in case of error occurrence.
* @retval None
*/
void Error_Handler(void)
{
/* USER CODE BEGIN Error_Handler_Debug */
/* User can add his own implementation to report the HAL error return state */
__disable_irq();
while (1)
{
}
/* USER CODE END Error_Handler_Debug */
}

#ifdef USE_FULL_ASSERT
/**
* @brief Reports the name of the source file and the source line number
* where the assert_param error has occurred.
* @PAram file: pointer to the source file name
* @PAram line: assert_param error line source number
* @retval None
*/
void assert_failed(uint8_t *file, uint32_t line)
{
/* USER CODE BEGIN 6 */
/* User can add his own implementation to report the file name and line number,
ex: printf("Wrong parameters value: file %s on line %d\r\n", file, line) */
/* USER CODE END 6 */
}
#endif /* USE_FULL_ASSERT */
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Its not clear how it determines how many of the 12 bytes were received or not, but as it ping-pongs between the two blocking functions, there some 12 character times where it's not going to be sufficiently responsive to in-coming data, and is going to lose it, or get overrun errors.

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A byte can always be lost because of wiring issues, noise, delayed interrupts, CPU/DMA/bus overload etc. 


This isn't new at all. All seasonal programmers should know how to recover from a missing/corrupt byte.

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bongumsa12
Associate III

Thank you to all those who responded to the issue. There's nothing wrong with the program. The program simply waits until the UART Rx FIFO has 12 bytes of data. Then re-transmit the received data. There are two possible problems that might exist here. It's either the UART modules are faulty, or there are solder bridges to be configured. If you have an STM32F042K6, please test the program on your board to verify this. 

The point is that there is no "if" for this. It is always like that! There is no case of "known length messages". The only other way is called very simply - broken code. We should start calling things for what they really are...

It is not new for me and you, but almost none of the university/college students and other beginners, including ST's geniuses, know and understand this. That shows that the teachers and more experienced colleagues are also mostly incompetent. Honestly, the education system and the society in general still haven't grown up to understand that the software development is a discipline of engineering, not some bohemian art done by wizards.

By the way, the HAL_UARTEx_ReceiveToIdle_IT() is still half useless, because it cannot do a continuous reception. Read this post to see how ridiculous the HAL is and how simple a decent API can be.

You've mentioned solder bridges, so does that mean you have a Nucleo-F042K6?

You haven't mentioned what is connected to uart1 and uart2? 

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bongumsa12
Associate III

By default, cubeMX assigns USART2 Tx and Rx to PA2 and PA3. According to the STM32 manual, for virtual communication (USB), only PA2 and PA15 are used. I had to change PA3 to PA15. Now the program works.

 

 

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Karl Yamashita
Lead II

When you start a new Nucleo-F042K6 board project it configures VCP correctly. You ended up creating a new project for just a STM32F042 which defaults to PA2 and PA3. 

 

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Mine always defaults to PA2 and PA3 when I create a new project.

I just explained that you need to start a new BOARD Project.

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