I am a complete beginner to Microcontroller programming. I have a new STM32F4 Discovery board and I am clueless on how to begin with a simple blinking LED program.
I have installed Eclipse with the GNU ARM plugin and now I am wondering what to do next. I have found a few tutorials online but most of them use other IDEs than Eclipse. I am not sure if Eclipse is the best IDE for uC programming. If yes, could someone point me to tutorials for such programming for beginners.
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and click on Download button below. Later you can extract the files..
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That is all i can do.
Getting a toolchain up and running is the first step. For the STM32F4, I recommend CooCox. It's the most straightforward to get you up and running, and will use the standard CMSIS HAL for the STM32 -- which is probably the most extensible way to program the ARM Cortex processors such that what you learn will easily transfer to other ARM Cortex manifestations.
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\$\begingroup\$ How about IAR workbench as the IDE. My company has a license for it. Would you recommend using IAR workbench over CooCox? \$\endgroup\$smyslov– smyslov2015年07月09日 14:00:05 +00:00Commented Jul 9, 2015 at 14:00
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\$\begingroup\$ IAR is fine. The free versions are limited in terms of the size of the application, I believe, but with reasonable limits. It's certainly not crippleware. Full versions are very good. \$\endgroup\$Scott Seidman– Scott Seidman2015年07月09日 17:39:28 +00:00Commented Jul 9, 2015 at 17:39
The STM32F4DISCOVERY firmware applications are provided in one single package and supplied in one single zip file. The extraction of the zip file generates one folder, STM32F4-Discovery_FW_VX.Y.Z,but I am unable to find the zip anywhere in this link. Am I looking at the wrong page? @Umar \$\endgroup\$