Toolchain on Carmine Noviello

Build STM32 applications with Eclipse, GCC and STM32Cube

Thu, 04 Jun 2015 14:13:18 +0000

If you landed to this page, you probably already know that I’ve covered this topic in the past. I showed in a series made of three posts how to successfully setup a complete Eclipse/GCC ARM tool-chain to develop applications for the STM32Nucleo-F4 developing board. Since then, many people have reported me positive feedback on that tutorial. But, some of them had serious troubles in getting those instructions working for other STM32 families (F0, F1 and so on). This was mainly caused by the GNU ARM Eclipse plug-in, or rather by the included templates in the plug-in. When a new project is created using the plug-in wizard, a template is used depending on processor family. Unfortunately, the plug-in author has updated just the template for STM32-F4 family to the more recently STM32Cube-F4 HAL framework from ST (which still supports only commercial IDE…..), leaving the other templates still based on the old Standard Peripheral Library, which is no longer supported by ST and STM32CubeMX tool used in my tutorial. *This causes my instructions to be wrong for processor families different from STM32-F4. *

Setting up a GCC/Eclipse toolchain for STM32Nucleo – Part II

Wed, 07 Jan 2015 14:13:50 +0000

In the first part of this series we’ve successfully setup a minimal yet working tool-chain to develop applications for the STM32 family (we’ve especially focused on STM32Nucleo developing board). We’ve based the tool-chain over the Eclipse IDE and the GCC cross-compiler for ARM Cortex platform. We’ve also created a test project (a simple blinking LED) and uploaded it on our Nucleo using the ST-Link Utility.

Setting up a GCC/Eclipse toolchain for STM32Nucleo - Part I

Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:09:33 +0000

I recently got in my hands a new development board from STMicroelectronics: STM32Nucleo. It’s a development board based on the STM32 MCU and it is compatible with the Arduino UNO pinout. This means that it’s possible to use the hundreds of shields available for the Arduino. However this is true in theory, since the most important aspect of Arduino’s world is the software (based on libraries, examples, and so on) made for this popular platform.