Getting Started with STM32 and Nucleo – 101

This course will review the STM32 naming convention for its processors and introduce the Nucleo development boards.  

The STM32 series is based on the ARM Cortex architectures. Specifically, we’ll be looking at the STM32 Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers. We’ll use STMicroelectronics’ official Nucleo development boards (the Nucleo-L476RG in particular) to make life easier.   

We will install the STM32CubeIDE and write a simple C program that blinks an LED. We will be using ST’s Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) to make controlling pins easier and code more portable. Finally, we briefly examine using the built-in step-through debugger with STM32CubeIDE.