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STM32F4 Discovery Tutorial 1 Using NETMF - Setting Up the Environment

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I received my STM32F4 Discovery board few days ago. During these days I am searching for a good compiler for the STM32 which is free or provide a better code sized free version. I am already working in .Net environment using C#, and I it is pretty good. In Google search I saw STM32F4 programming using  .Net, the below link.

We are using a .net port for STM32F4, it is .Net micro framework. 
I am using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 (Compatibility of others is not known).
I hope you have an STM32F4 Discovery Board.
Necessary Tools
1.      STM32 ST-LINK Utility            Get It ->
2.      USB Micro and USB Mini cable.
3.      .NET MicroFramework SDK  Get It ->  
4.      Download these files (Evaluation purpose only driver)
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Install all the softwares.
Step 1
            Connect Board to PC using Micro USB
The board will get power and power LED & COM LED will be on, if your board is fresh the demo program will run blinking LEDs.
The computer will look for drivers, ( I installed the drivers included in some software already, so i didn’t seen it)
Install STM32 ST-LINK Utility   you downloaded. The driver will be automatically installed.
Step 2
You need to Erase the program and Configs in the controller.
For these, open the STLink Utility from where you installed it.
            Let’s first erase chip.
From Target select Erase chip ------Target > Erase Chip click Select ALL apply
After doing these you need to erase sector
For these select erase sector from target
Target >Erase sector

After these you have to load bootloader to the Discovery board.
In the stm32f4 Files.zip you will see some files: Open Tinybooter.hex in the STLink Utility
From Targets >Program
After it’s done,
Reset the board.



Step 3


After you have reset your board now plug-in the USB Micro USB and connect to PC(the other USB). Most of the smart phone cables should be Micro USB.  Once you connected the Micro USB, windows will start searching for driver and will fail. Now we got to install the driver we downloaded from the zip file. “STM32_WinUSB_drivers_(for_evaluation_purposes_only)  Folder. From device manager find the USB device then (May be its name is STM32F4 Test or unrecognized)
Double click on it, from DRIVER  tab  click update diver and browse it to the folder mentioned above and update it.

 Doing this you can see a device as shown in pic. Control Panel> Devices and printers
   




STM32F4 Discovery Programming






Step 4

Find the application Named MFDeploy.exe
Launch MFDeploy.exe (you should be able to find it in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft .NET Micro Framework\v4.2\Tools\MFDeploy.exe) which you should have got when you installed the SDK. To make sure MFDeploy can see the board do as shown below.














If you see the Ping the everything is good till this point. Now download the other 2 .hex ER_Config.hex and ER_Flash.hex files extracted from stm32f4 Files.zip file to the board using the MFDeploy as shown below one by one.   (the Combo-box, you need to change it to USB, the STM Discovey board will be shown in right of it.)



Reset the board.






Step 5
Open Visual C# Express/ Visual Studio  Select the project type as given below









Now we need to change the properties, so that the Visual Express/Studio will deploy to the hardware. So change the project properties as shown below

 

  






Add Reference  Right Click On MFTest in Solution Explorer>Add Reference> Select the following sown in the figure>OK





 





Code


using System;
using System.Threading;
using Microsoft.SPOT;
using Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware;
namespace MFtest
{
public class Program
{
public static void Main()
{
OutputPort led1 = new OutputPort(Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware.STM32.Pins.GPIO_PIN_D_15, false); //LED Pins of Discovery Board
OutputPort led2 = new OutputPort(Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware.STM32.Pins.GPIO_PIN_D_14, false);
OutputPort led3 = new OutputPort(Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware.STM32.Pins.GPIO_PIN_D_13, false);
OutputPort led4 = new OutputPort(Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware.STM32.Pins.GPIO_PIN_D_12, false);






while (true)
{
led1.Write(true);
Thread.Sleep(500);
led1.Write(false);
Thread.Sleep(500);
led2.Write(true);
Thread.Sleep(500);
led2.Write(false);
Thread.Sleep(500);
led3.Write(true);
Thread.Sleep(500);
led3.Write(false);
Thread.Sleep(500);
led4.Write(true);
Thread.Sleep(500);
led4.Write(false);
Thread.Sleep(500);

}
}
}
}







ADD files HardwareProvider.cs and CPU.cs to project (step is same as adding reference right click> select Add existing Item)  from the zip file downloaded including the drivers.

Start debugging your code will be written to your Discovery, you can see the status at the bottom. Reset your board.

You Are Successfully Done!!!!!!!!!

Download Full Project Files










STM32F4 Discovery Board


Comments

  1. Hello friends,
    Some files are uploaded in our facebook group. If you have any trouble in downloading the file please comment here. You need to be a member in the group to download the files.

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  2. Discovery is great. I run couple of shields on this like: SD Card, RTC, GPS, GSM SIM900, LCD with keypad, OneWire => iButton Reader.

    It is unfortunate that there are no people who would like to be proud of their actions of this module. Forum on codeplex looks inactive. Oberon also says nothing. New version port on netfm 4.3 would be great.

    Regards
    Darek

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  3. Hello Darek,
    Thanks for your comment and interest. I have done the Smart Home Project on Discovery. I wish to do it as open source, but i didnt found required resources. So i forced to do it using Mikroc. The support from Mikroe team and forum is great.

    I would like to transform the project to open source. It would be nice if you share some resources on this. If you have a facebook ID, join our group. You can find lot of Geeks there.

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  4. Hello Vishal,
    Every thing went well except at the very end, It could not locate Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware.STM32
    It finds Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware -- I am somehow missing this driver, and looked at your tutorial 4 times but I don't see where you loaded it.
    Thank you for your help.
    Best regards,
    Norm

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  5. @Marvin Did you installed .Net Micro framework?

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  6. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc532289.aspx

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  7. Thank you Vishal,
    I will reload the .NET Framework and try again.
    Best regards,
    Marvin

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  8. Thanks for your information. And the steps given for setting up the environment is really useful. In STM32 F4 series, there are five product lines and this results in the symbiosis of real time control capabilities of Micro controller unit. They are,

    STM32F401
    STM32F405/415
    STM32F407/417
    STM32F427/437
    STM32F429/439
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  9. It is a great work! But wouldn't it be better if ST-Link (mini USB) is used for .C# code transfer and debug so that micro usb is spare and can be used as USB device/host?
    Best Regards
    Pradeep Maskeri

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  10. @maskeri
    USB can be used as per requirement after uploading code.

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  11. Nice idea ! Can I do it using vb.net?

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