Eval board with multiple SPI and UART peripherals

[Praneeth]

Hi, I am currently working on a Embedded software application which require multiple SPI, UART peripherals/ pinouts(Min 2). I have used SDP-K1 (MCU- STM32F469) Eval board for my previous project which is suitable for my current project as well except that I need multiple pinouts. Is there any Eval board/Development board suitable for my Use case. Please help me out

[Andrew Neil]

The Nucleo boards provide access to all the processor pins - so you can access as many SPIs & UARTs as the chip on the board makes available ...

[Praneeth]

Since STM32F469 Nucleo boards isn't available, which STM32 MCU with Nucleo board would be relatively similar or better compared to F469

[Andrew Neil]

List of available Nucleo boards here:

https://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/stm32-nucleo-boards.html

I don't thing there are that many STM32s which don't have at leas 2 SPIs and 2 UARTs ?

[Praneeth]

I am just asking, which MCU has equivalent performance to that of F469

[Andrew Neil]

Overview of STM32 families:

https://www.st.com/en/microcontrollers-microprocessors/stm32-high-performance-mcus.html

Whence, overview of the F4 family:

https://www.st.com/en/microcontrollers-microprocessors/stm32f4-series.html 

[Tesla DeLorean · Accepted solution]

Well most newer CM4 / CM7 designs would. At some point you're going to need to do your own due diligence, and weight all the factors / features that you need.

Perhaps you can look at the shield connector on the F469-DISCO, and if that offers enough pins routable to UART or SPI functionality.

If you need a purely pin escape exercise, without the SDRAM, LCD, perhaps look at the NUCLEO-F429 or F439

Also a host of break-out / minimal boards on the AliExpress / TaoBao kind of stores.

See WeAct, FANKE, etc