STM32 development tool supports Arduino and mbed

[Alex1881]

Hi,

ST has just released the STM32 Nucleo. This is a series of development tools that allow to quickly evaluate any STM32. These boards are extensible with Arduino, and they are supported by mbed. This makes them a good basis for any embedded community.

The main idea:

-   A lean board
-   Contains and STLink debugger/programmer (as all ST MCU evaluation tools do)
-   Contains an STM32 in 64pin package
-   Carries Arduino UNO v3 connectors
-   Carries another connector called “Morpho” (and ST development)
-   Has 2 Vreg and a couple of buttons and LEDs

Starting from there, every STM32 Nucleo board has the same layout making the each I/O pin of the contained micro available on the same physical location of the Arduino and “Morpho” connector. Many functions are common to all STM32 on the same pin location.

Arduino support:
-   The boards have the Arduino UNO R3 connector. This connector carries a so called IOREF pin. This pin allows the Arduino shields to adjust the IO voltage to the 3V3 for the STM32 if these shields follow the specification. The official Arduino shields are said to do so

Mbed support:
-   Mbed has full support for these boards (communities, code libraries etc.)
-   STLINK supports
o   Virtual com port (also useful outside mbed)
o   Mass storage mode for programming (also useful outside mbed)

Apart from that it is worth noticing that the boards are supported by IAR and KEIL and they can also be used with GCC based IDEs such as Atollic.

They has launched today four variants of the STM32 Nucleo based on the STM32F401RE (512K), STM32L152RE (512K), STM32F103RB (128K), STM32F030R8 (64K) and a total of 2.200 are given away at the embedded world 2014 upon prior registration.

The boards come with a standard peripheral and HAL library containing also some examples.



More information may also be found here:
-   Information about portfolio www.st.com/stm32nucleo
-   Registration for the free STM32 Nucleo campaign at the embedded world 2014: http://www.st.com/web/en/support/nucleo_ew14_registration.html
-   Design resources in the product folders (databrief, user manual, software, schematics, etc.)
http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM116/SC959/SS1532/LN1847/PF260000 (NUCLEO-F401RE)
http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM116/SC959/SS1532/LN1847/PF259997 (NUCLEO-F030R8)
http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM116/SC959/SS1532/LN1847/PF259875 (NUCLEO-F103RB)
http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM116/SC959/SS1532/LN1847/PF260002 (NUCLEO-L152RE)
-   MBED repositories
http://mbed.org/teams/ST/wiki/platforms/ST-Nucleo-F103RB
http://mbed.org/teams/ST/wiki/platforms/ST-Nucleo-F401RE
http://mbed.org/teams/ST/wiki/platforms/ST-Nucleo-F030R8
http://mbed.org/teams/ST/wiki/platforms/ST-Nucleo-L152RE