Summary Recent STM32 series have an interesting feature called readout protection with password. It is possible to configure it using the SWD/JTAG debug interface or within user application code. The theory and an example of the first method is full...
Introduction Debug authentication is a critical security feature of the system considering that with a debugger the user can access a large part of the system. To control a reopening of the debug port, the device imposes a debug authentication proto...
Introduction For various reasons, developers may need to deactivate booting of a core in the STM32H7 dual-core product. This article shows how to disable the Cortex®-M7 and Cortex®-M4 cores and enable them again. 1. Disabling a core in a dual-core co...
Summary This article provides a quick guide on what the STM32N6’s OTP bits are and how to program them. It includes step-by-step instructions and explanation on configuring the OTP124, responsible for changing the VDDIOs' voltage to 1.8 V instead of...
How to add your SPI flash into the STM32CubeProgrammer’s external loader?Welcome back with the part 2 of our article series that explains how to add a custom SPI flash memory in the External Loader portion of the STM32CubeProgrammer and in the STM32C...
Introduction Sharing a MCU board between multiple users may be sometimes challenging when someone makes a modification on the board or in the MCU option bytes and doesn’t notify about it. Additionally, the board owner might forget the changes applie...
Summary The STM32 VS Code extension doesn’t natively support OpenOCD, but with some simple configuration, you can integrate it into your debugging workflow. This article covers how to set up OpenOCD (either Streamline or ST’s fork) with the extension...
Introduction ST Open Bootloader is example application code for STM32 microcontrollers providing In-Application programming (IAP) and is offered in the STM32Cube MCU Packages and GitHub. It is fully compatible with the STM32 System Bootloader and sup...
Summary Our STM32Cube_FW_H5 package contains several UDP application examples that can be of great help. This article provides a detailed guide on how to develop an application using NetXDuo and benefit from TrustZone® isolation and security featur...
The Ethernet peripheral on STM32H7x3 is not sending, or receiving data correctly. Or, the IP stack is not able to establish connection to other devices. What could be the problem? In most cases, the problem is related to memory layout and Memory Prot...
Introduction For cost reasons, many ST boards do not feature an external Crystal to feed the STM32’s system clock over the high-speed external clock (HSE). On the other hand, some peripherals need a precise clock source to work and behave correctly...
When uploading a stack on an STM32WB and the wireless stack is not running, this is due to the following: Most of the time, the reason is that after the installation of a wireless stack, it by default starts running without the need for any user act...
Introduction The debugger is a tool that permit the programmer to monitor and track its code. It is very useful to execute the code step by step and see how it responds, it also helps to indicate the source of an error in case of malfunction.The debu...
In our example here, we will use the Nucleo-H742ZI as our STM32 board to show you how to use the STM32CubeProgrammer to access the target’s USB-DFU bootloader.Every STM32 MCU comes pre-programmed from our factory with a system memory bootloader store...
In this example, we will use the Nucleo-H743ZI as our STM32 reference board to show you how to leverage the STM32CubeProgrammer GUI to access the target’s USART bootloader.Every STM32 MCU comes pre-programmed with a system memory bootloader stored in...
Although it is possible to program the option bytes through a debugger with a tool like STM32CubeProgrammer, there are many times where it is necessary or helpful to program the options bytes in the runtime of the application. The STM32 HAL libraries...
Within the Cube firmware packages, there are examples of in-application USB DFU that were originally created for use with the DFuse software utility. DFuse is now not recommended for new designs, so the purpose of this article is to show how these ex...
Introduction The main objective of this article is to provide a step-by-step guide on how to develop and add your own external loader to manage external memories. This demo implementation uses a STM32U5A9J-DK and octo-SPI interface, but it can be ea...
Many of our microcontrollers provide the option to enable a parity check on SRAM via the option bytes. This feature becomes particularly useful when trying to get your product certified for safety critical applications, as without the parity check it...
How to use STM32CubeProgrammer and the STLINK-V3SET to access the I2C bootloader on my STM32 board?1. Introduction Every STM32 MCU comes pre-programmed with a system memory bootloader stored in the internal boot ROM (system memory). Its main purpose...
