Monthly Archives: December 2012

Debugging the STM32F4 using openocd, gdb and Eclipse

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This article will describe how to debug the STM32F4 microcontroller using the zylin eclipse plugin. The following setup will be used:

  • STM32F4 discovery board
  • The built-in SWD programmer/debugger on the discovery board
  • Toolchain and example program from this tutorial (I have updated the build script for debugging to work, so if you have followed the tutorial before you may have to download and run the summon-arm script again)

The result will look something like this:

Debug_View

You can:

  • Set hardware breakpoints
  • See variable values when hitting the breakpoints
  • Change variables, then continue
  • Many other things…

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STM32F4 Discovery USB host and MP3 player

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I have not written any new post for a while, so here is one more project for the stm32f4 discovery. I prepared this post a long time ago, but for some reason I never posted it, so here goes:

STM32F4_MP3

Based on one of the examples provided by ST, I have written a program for the STM32F4 Discovery board that plays MP3 files from an USB memory stick. You can download it here.

If you use a usb-host cable such as this one you can connect an USB memory stick (with fat32 file system) with mp3-files to the micro-usb port of the stm32f4 discovery. The files should then be played one by one. The user button can be used to skip to the next file.

If you follow this tutorial you should be able to build and upload the provided files right away.

The main.c-file has many comments, so hopefully you can figure out how it works. Using a USB-memorystick for logging is quite easy with this program as a basis. Only the two usb-pins, 5V and gnd are required to connect it to any stm32 with USB support, so hw-wise it’s even easier than using an SD-card.