CubeMX hides "SMPS enable" too well for users of STM32U5

BarryWhit · ‎2024-07-29

Cube is very enthusiastic about reminding you to enable the SMPS on U5 chips

And it's also infuriatingly coy about how one actually does this:

Here is just the latest example of an understandably confused costumer.

I would like to see the warning message amended to give more specific instructions on how to do this,

(i.e. "enable low-power/power saving mode and then choose SMPS as the power regulator")

and the PWR pane should be modified to be more self-explanatory, either by reworking the options,

or the help strings, or both.

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BarryWhit · ‎2024-07-29

Also, I believe this is a known bug but if it isn't it should be fixed - Cube should not issue a warning abouse enabling the SMPS for part numbers that don't have an SMPS (obviously).

cc @STTwo-32 .

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BarryWhit · ‎2024-07-29

For future ~~victims~~ visitors:

Isn't that just terrible? as the only way to resolve a warning message every customer who starts a cube project for STM32U5 sees? it really is, it's terrible.

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