All the microcontroller’s pins are available on the pin headers.

It will be the best choice for everyone who is going to start STM32. Although the example in this article was done by it, you can use any other IDE supported by STM32CubeMX if you have worked with.īlue Pill is a STM32F103C8 header board with a powerful MCU alongside with a really cheap price, which makes it worth having one. IAR EW for ARM is an Integrated Development Environment – IDE – supporting a wide range of ARM microcontrollers such as STM32, which I am using it currently for STM32. STM32CubeMX is a very useful software tool from STMicroelectronics that provides a configuration environment for STM32 MCUs and their peripherals, and generates project files and configuration code for a number of IDEs such as ST, IAR SYSTEM, KEIL ARM, and EW, so that the generated project can be compiled in the corresponding IDE and programmed into the MCU.

IAR EW for ARM (or any other IDE supporting STM32).

To have an easy start, we need the tools below: Getting started with STM32 is not a tough job at all considering available software and hardware tools.

Fairly cheaper price than the other MCUs.

More useful peripherals compared with other MCUs.

There are also a lot of evaluation and header boards for STM32 available on markets, and some of them like lovely Blue Pill are really useful and convenient. So I have only listed some of the features, which made me choose them as the main target in my projects. There is a lot of information about the STM32 family microcontrollers on the Internet as they are using widely all over the world.

Stm32 blue pill schematic