Getting started with the STM32 Nucleo-F746ZG

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:30:28 +0000

Finally the totally new Nucleo-F746 is in my hands! This is the first development kit of the Nucleo-144 line from ST, and I’ve to say that probably, at that street price (~23$), is the best development kit a maker can find on the market, if you consider that a genuine Arduino DUE costs more than 40$ and its MCU is just a Cortex-M3.

Compared to the classic Nucleo-64, it looks impressive: it’s more wider and offers a lot of more “standard” peripherals. The USER LEDs are now three (red, blue and green), and the power LED is now green. The most relevant thing is that the board comes with a LAN jack, magnetics and a SMSC phyther. This means that we can start developing IoT applications using the powerful Cortex-M7 core running at 216MHz. Respect to the STM32F746-Discovery, which was the first “cheap” F7 development board from ST, it doesn’t provide an LCD display. However, the Nucleo-144 provides the most of MCU signal I/Os through the “Zio” connectors, while the Discovery-F7 only few signals routed to the Arduino-style connectors. If you are going to use the Nucleo-144 to develop a custom product, then it’s the best option.

Stm32f746 on Carmine Noviello

Getting started with the STM32 Nucleo-F746ZG