2012-04-01 11:03 AM
Grrrrr!! I just wrote a long post about the new F0-Discovery board, and the forum software threw it away.
Rather than re-write a thoughtful post, I'll do what the crappy forum software encourages me to do and write a mostly useless one. I was fortunate enough to get one of the new F0-Discovery boards at Design West -- one of my reasons for going. It has a STM32F051-R8T6 with ID 0x0bb11477, 0x20006440. Two pushbuttons and two LEDs are the only external I/O connections. A protoboard is included. I wrote a bunch, including the layout of the flash controller and the new serial connection on the STLink part. But I won't risk another half hour of writing to the forum software.2012-04-02 11:10 PM
Hi Donald, is there a chance to read your ''threwn away'' post somewhere else ?
The ST-M0 seems an alternative for lots of cost sensitive projects. By the way, I had these issues with this forum software, too. It sometimes just refused to send my long and carefully prepared posts...2012-04-03 12:44 AM
No, the post is gone. I didn't remember to copy the text before clicking 'OK'. The forum software returned an error, and the text wasn't there when I hit the 'back' button.
I had written about the board itself, the prototyping board included in the package, and updates I made to my 'stlinkv2-util' program to support it. If I get a chance this week, I'll check those updates into the Google Code project. I also wrote about the new STLink serial connection feature. The embedded STLink uses the familiar 'F103 chip, with a new hardware feature. It routes USART2 Tx and Rx lines from the F103 to the target processor. I was hoping someone here had worked out the protocol extensions for using this.2012-04-03 12:57 AM