BLACK STM32F4VET6 with Arduino IDE

[hussamaldean]

Hi all,
recently, I got myself a new awesome uC which is BLACK STM32F4VET6 to design three phase SPWM inverter (challenge accepted)
here is a picture for the uC


anyway, I want to upload blink sketch but it turns out the USB is for power only and when I want to connect my FTDI to serial port, PA9and10 no success
is there anyway to upload the code ?
regards and thx in advance

[newbrain]

Here's some suggestion to get your board going:

• If the board has no Arduino style bootloader, you won't be able to load a program through the IDE
• All STM32s have an internal bootloader, capable of downloading a binary into the flash. This can be used to burn an Arduino like bootloader.
• Specifically the STM32F407 bootloader can do that from USART1 and 3, CAN bus, or USB (DFU), see chapter 26.
• The BOOTn pins need to be correctly set up for the bootloader to be activated.
• For serial, a specific flasher must be run on the PC, and you can use more or less any USB to serial(3.3V levels) converter.
• An alternative way is using an ST-Link (cheap clones abounds on the usual sites) connected to the SWD pins and the good old ST-Link utility, or the new STM32CubeProgrammer (which can also flash through serial or USB DFU)
• Lots of information can be found on the STM32duino wiki.

A note: the USB pins on your board are connected, at least according to the schematic, and there's a quartz for the HSE so it should be capable to use DFU, once the BOOT pins are correctly set (see the relevant chapter 4 pattern 1 in the bootloader doc linked above: BOOT0 = 1 and BOOT1 = 0) and a suitable DFU utility is running on the PC.

I will refrain to comment on the choice to use the Arduino IDE.

EtA: links to the programming utilities and BOOT pins configuration.

[hussamaldean]

Here's some suggestion to get your board going:

• If the board has no Arduino style bootloader, you won't be able to load a program through the IDE
• All STM32s have an internal bootloader, capable of downloading a binary into the flash. This can be used to burn an Arduino like bootloader.
• Specifically the STM32F407 bootloader can do that from USART1 and 3, CAN bus, or USB (DFU), see chapter 26.
• The BOOTn pins need to be correctly set up for the bootloader to be activated.
• For serial, a specific flasher must be run on the PC, and you can use more or less any USB to serial(3.3V levels) converter.
• An alternative way is using an ST-Link (cheap clones abounds on the usual sites) connected to the SWD pins and the good old ST-Link utility, or the new STM32CubeProgrammer (which can also flash through serial or USB DFU)
• Lots of information can be found on the STM32duino wiki.

A note: the USB pins on your board are connected, at least according to the schematic, and there's a quartz for the HSE so it should be capable to use DFU, once the BOOT pins are correctly set (see the relevant chapter 4 pattern 1 in the bootloader doc linked above: BOOT0 = 1 and BOOT1 = 0) and a suitable DFU utility is running on the PC.

I will refrain to comment on the choice to use the Arduino IDE.

EtA: links to the programming utilities and BOOT pins configuration.

I completely forgot about BOOT0 pin and tried to upload directly just like arduino
force of habit
but now it does work and I blinked the two built in leds
it is a progress