![]() When all installation steps are completed, a dialog window will pop up to tell you that the ststm32 platform has been installed. The easiest way to install any development platform is the PlatformIO Home App: This way PlatformIO will do all the heavy lifting by installing everything that is needed (toolchain, framework, etc) automatically. Once the PlatformIO IDE is ready, the ST STM32 development platform can be installed. The most up-to-date and detailed installation instructions can be found in the official PlatformIO IDE for VSCode documentation. In this guide Visual Studio Code is used as the editor. ![]() Some software needs to be installed before diving into the development process. It has out-of-the-box support for STM32 microcontrollers and allows working with low-level libraries like CMSIS, STM32Cube, and LibOpenCM3 as well as with popular high-level frameworks like Arduino, Mbed, or Zephyr without changing your development environment.Ī detailed overview of the PlatformIO ecosystem and its philosophy can be found in the official documentation. PlatformIO is a professional collaborative platform for embedded development that includes lots of instruments for the most common development tasks. The goal of this guide is to show you how simple it is to set up PlatformIO with Visual Studio Code and use it to compile, upload, and debug STM32Cube-based application on the STM32 Nucleo-F401RE board. This guide will help you take the first steps with programming STM32 microcontrollers using the PlatformIO ecosystem. The STM32 MCUs are commonly used in many industrial and commercial products these days.Note that this tutorial is written by and maintained by the PlatformIO team. It is beginner friendly and on top of that, it is free to use, just download the IDE and its respective drive from link below. Out of these, the Keil MDK is the most used one. The Board can be programmed with many Development tool chains which are listed below: The Nucleo Development Board is relatively easy to get started and learn since it has an in-built programmer and debugger. ![]() Note: More technical information can be found in the STM32 Nucleo-F401RE Datasheet, linked at the bottom of this page.Īrduino UNO, Arduino Pro Mini, Arduino Mega, Arduino Due, Arduino Leonardo, Raspberry Pi, PIC Development Board, AVR Development Board, MSP430 Launchpad, Intel Edison, ESP32 PC0, PC1, PC2, PC3, PC10, PC11, PC12, PC13, PC14, PC15Ĭan be used to power them module from battery They are also categorized with the table below: The name of the pins can be found in the image above. They comprise of GPIO pins, Analog Pins, Timer Pins, and Power pins. These pins are classified into CN7 and CN10 with each having 38 Pins. These pins can also be used for I2C Communication A4 is SDA and A5 is SCLĬan be used to provide analog reference voltageĪcts as SCK, MISO, MOSI and CS pins respectively for SPI communicationĪcts as Rx and Tx pins respectively for USART communicationĪpart from the Arduino pins, the board also has 76 (38+38) GPIO pins as male headers on either side of the board as shown above. Provides 3.3V as output can also be used to power the MCU Each category pin can be tabulated as follows: The Arduino pins are split into category CN5, CN6, CN8, and CN9. The arduino like pins are female connector pins which exactly match the order and position of Arduino UNO pins and hence any Arduino shield can be used with these development boards. The pin one resembles the Arduino UNO and the blue one is the STM32 style ( Morpho). As you can see, there are two sets of pins. The STM32 Nucleo board pinout is shown above. The Board operates with 3.3V supply but a wide voltage range of 7-12V can be provided to the VIN pin since it has an on-board voltage regulator. Similarly, there are two push buttons where one is user programmable, and the other is to reset the Microcontroller. This board also comes with an integrated ST-LINK/V2-1 programmer and debugger hence it is very easy to get started with this board.Īs shown in the image above, there are three LEDs, where LD1 is for indicating USB communication, LD2 is programmable LED, and LD3 indicates power. The Boards pinout is similar to Arduino UNO and has many other additional pins to expand performance. It features the ARM Cortex M4 32-bit STM32F401RET6 microcontroller which is in LQFP64 package. The STM32 Nucleo boards are the official Development Boards from STMicroelectronics.
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