Embedded Systems using STM32

Dr. Muhammad Irfan

Assistant Professor, FEE

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, GIK Institute

 Intro

▶ PhD graduate from CityU Hong Kong

▶ Seven SCI Journals and many conference

papers
▪ Presented in UK, US, Singapore, HK, Shenzhen
▪ Reviewer in SCI Journals, e.g., IEEE TVLSI, IEEE
Access, IEEE TCAS II, etc
▪ Two Patent Applications filed in US

▶ Other than papers ☺

▪ Vice-Chair IEEE CityU HK Student Branch
▪ Resident Tutor at CityU Hong Kong

▶ I love Video Games and Photography.

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 Education

University of Engineering and

Technology, Pakistan

▶ BS Electrical Engineering Bachelors

2009 2013
▪ Communication Degree

▶ MS Electrical Engineering Lahore University of Management

Teaching Sciences, Pakistan
▪ Embedded Systems
Master
2014 2016
▶ PhD Electrical Engineering Degree

▪ Reconfigurable Computing
City University of Hong Kong

Teaching
PhD
2021 2018
Degree

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 Teaching Interests
◼ Microcontrollers / FPGAs
◼ Memory Design
◼ Digital Systems Design
◼ Internet of things
◼ Hardware programming / Embedded Systems
◼ Neural Networks implementation, AI Acceleration

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 Communication
• WhatsApp group:
• Only me and CR will be able to send message in the group.
If you have any issues to discuss such as scheduling a
class, asking for notes, lecture timings, etc., consult CR, and
he will communicate to me accordingly.

• Email: m.irfan@ieee.org

• Office: F07 FEE

• Better to take appointment before visiting my office.

• Office Hours:
• Tuesday: 4-5pm

• Course Material:
• Google Classroom

• Questions:
• Raise Hand
• Ask end of Lecture

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 Resources

• All lectures and other resources will be uploaded

on the Google Classroom

• I will try to upload the specific portion of the book

from where you will need to cover the topic.

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 Topics
• Embedded Systems
• Microcontrollers vs. Microprocessors
• Most common microcontrollers
• STM32 family
• Discovery Board
• Cortex M4
• Development Tools

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 Embedded Systems
Topics

Embedded systems (ES) = information processing systems

embedded into a larger product

•Examples
:

• Often, the main reason for buying is not information processing

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 Many Names – Similar Meanings

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 General Purpose Microprocessors vs.
Microcontrollers
• General Purpose Microprocessors

General I/O Serial

Purpose RAM ROM Timer
Port Port
Micropro
cessor
(CPU) Buses

• Microcontrollers (MCUs)
Microcontroller

I/O Serial
RAM ROM Timer
Port Port
CPU
Fig. is Correct
Buses

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 Most common microcontrollers
• 8-bit microcontrollers
– AVR
– PIC
– HCS12
– 8051

• 32-bit microcontrollers
– ARM
– AVR32
– PIC32

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 Arm
• Arm does not produce chips but designs & sells
the license of its of architecture to others.
• More than 200 companies have bought the Arm
architecture and provide their Arm chips.

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 ARM Naming

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 Low to High end

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 Development Board

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 Development Board (Cont.)

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 Development Board (Cont.)

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 Development Board (Cont.)

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 Development Board (Cont.)

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 Development Board (Cont.)

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 Development Tools

+ STM32CubeMX

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 Development Tools

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 Development Board (Cont.)

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 Nucleo

Indicate
pin numbers

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 STM32CubeIDE

Inherit features from

STM32CubeMX

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 Languages
◼ High Level Languages
◼ Easy to develop and update
◼ C Language
◼ Acceptable performance
◼ Easy to develop and update High Level Languages
◼ Low Level Languages (like VB)
◼ High performance C Language
◼ Not portable
Machine Language

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 A simple C program
◼ Write a program that calculate the sum of
{1,3,…,13,15}
#include <stm32f10x.h>
int main ()
{
unsigned int sum;

for (int i = 1; i <= 15; i+=2)

sum += i;

while (1);
return 0;
}

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 Data Types

Data type Size Range

char 1 byte -128 to 127
unsigned char 1 byte 0 to 255
short int 2 bytes -32,768 to 32,767
unsigned short int 2 bytes 0 to 65,535
long 4 bytes -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647
unsigned long 4 bytes 0 to 4,294,967,295
long long 8 bytes -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to
9,223,372,036,854,775,807
unsigned long long 8 bytes 0 to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615

◼ The int data type is 32-bit in Arm. It is 16-bit in 16-bit and 8-bit processors.

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Data types (cont.)

◼ char c; c ◼ long lng; lng
◼ int8_t c; ◼ int32_t lng;

a1 a
◼ short int a1; ◼ uint16_t a;
◼ int16_t a1; ◼ unsigned short a;

What is the difference between signed and unsigned integers?

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 Arm families and Architectures

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 Arm MCUs of Different Companies
• The same CPU and programming Language
• Different Peripherals

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 STM32 Family
• ST is a multinational
company
– STM8: 8-bit MCUs
– STM32: 32-bit MCUs
based on Arm
•Low prices
•Various chips

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 ST32 Naming Conventions

STM32F103C8T
type series package
family
Sub Pin Flash
series count size
Family Series
Type
Flash Package
Pin count
size
Sub series
L:0:Low
Names of the new Cortex-M0
H:Chips
Arm BGAwith
Power (Ballhigher
Grid Array)
4 8 F of
6products GB K C
1,2: with
T:LQFP T
Cortex-M3DS
(Low-profile C
E RF VG ZH I
F: ST
Mainstream
begin sub-seriesQuad Flat Pack)
(Foundation)
Group Number
Low Medium density
20STM32.
28 32
3,4: High
36 density
Cortex-M4
U:QFN 44 have
(Quad 48No-leads)
Flat 64 100 144
H: High performance
numbers
density
of pins 7: Cortex-M7
W: Y:WLCSP
Wirelessricher
Flash 16K 32K 64K 128K 256K 384K 512K 768K 1M 1.5M 2M
configurations

STM32F429AIH6 STM32F103C8T6 STM32F031K6U6

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 STM32F103

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 Lab…

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