Hello - a newbie looking for very basic documentation.

[Xilman]

Hello world. This is my first post to the forum so please be tolerant if I inadvertently breach local etiquette.

I have some experience with RPi, Mbed and Arduino systems but none with the STM32F range until very recently when I was given a few kits to play with. Unfortunately absolutely no documentation was provided with any of them. The STM32F769I-EVAL will serve as an initial example, as that is the one with which I have been playing for a few hours. It powers up and displays lights, some of which flash under certain circumstances, and sometimes appears as a USB disk drive on the development computer. That drive contains precisely one file.

A vast range of documentation is available and I have downloaded a selection, along with development software. I am using a Ubuntu 23.10 amd64 system; The IDE fires up correctly, as far as I can tell. However, no documentation yet found is at a sufficiently basic level to enable me to make use of the material I do have. Neither have I yet found anything appropriate on YouTube.

What I need to know is along the lines of which of the four mini-B USB sockets to connect to the computer; which position the switch should be in; which jumpers must or must not be present; how the board appears to the computer and what additional software may be necessary for communicating; and so on.

Can anyone point me at the sort of documentation I need please?

Thanks,

Paul

[Andrew Neil]

Have you looked at the ST You Tube Channel?

The STM32F769I-EVAL seems a bit of a beast to start with:

https://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/stm32f769i-eval.html

Would it not make more sense to start with something simpler?

Especially as the -EVAL kits are aimed more at experienced, professional developers - the Nucleo or Discovery ("Disco") boards are far simpler...

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@Xilman wrote:

What I need to know is along the lines of which of the four mini-B USB sockets to connect to the computer; which position the switch should be in; which jumpers must or must not be present; how the board appears to the computer and what additional software may be necessary for communicating; and so on.

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That would be in the User Manual - see the 'Documentation' tab on the Product Page (link above)

[Xilman]

Thank you. Based on your hint, I found that I need to install the stlink packages before I stand any chance of making progress. Installation now happening.

With luck, that may be all the clue I need but I won't close the thread until I am a bit more confident.

[Tesla DeLorean · Accepted solution]

Buildable code examples can be found in the CubeF7 trees, will be in you CubeMX / CubeIDE repository directory

https://github.com/STMicroelectronics/STM32CubeF7/tree/master/Projects/STM32F769I_EVAL

Board Support Materials for screen, memory, etc (/Drivers/BSP)

https://github.com/STMicroelectronics/stm32f769i-eval-bsp/tree/b535e2d4cbe2b89aa398f740a9872e6435aad760

[Xilman]

Thank you.  The HelloWorld demo built without issue but I've hit the libncurses5 issue already mentioned elsewhere. I know how to solve that one.