Category: Embedded Development

STM32F429 Dev Kit

This is a STM32F429. It has a 64Mbit SRAM on the back. It uses the larger LQFP176 chip. This was a bit of a surprise because the header is 2.0 pitch making it incompatible with bread-boards.

STM32F407 Dev Kit

This dev-hit is from HAOYU Electronics who produce some good, affordable kits. This is a LQFP144 version of STM32F407. This is basically the same as STM32F405 with Ethernet added. This board also have 128Mb Flash and 1Mb SRAM mounted. Again 2.54 pich headers enabling vero-board mounting. My only comment on this kit is that it…

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STM32F303Vx Dev Kit

This is another Cortex M4 that is a bit special. It runs on 72Mhz and have far less Flash/SRAM. It do however have 4 x 5Mhz ADC’s, Op amps and 3 x Motor Controllers on chip. Pitch 2.54 dev-kit so it can be mounted on a vero-board. Mounting dual headers on a vero-board is a…

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STM32F429 Disco

This is one of the official STM32F429 kit’s using a LQFP144 with a LCD display and 64Mbit of SRAM + a ST-Link. You simply connect the USB on the ST-Link and start programming. This one has 2.54 pich headers that is possible to mount on a vero-board.

Cypress 5LP Dev Kit

This is the 10.- USD dev kit for 5LP I spoke of earlier. P&P comes in addition, but I will encourage people to get one of these to play around with because it is not a “normal” ARM MCU. It actually contain two MCU’s as Cypress also add a programer at right. This can be…

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10Mhz 16 Channel Oscilloscope

Assuming using the external memory bus will work as I hope it also open up the possibility of a low cost 2-4 channel, 8 bit Oscilloscope at 60-100Mhz sampling speed. Using discrete components I should be able to create a high speed ADC etc. This should be sufficient for a 10Mhz Oscilloscope where you have…

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Dealing With Performance

Early morning planning! Whenever dealing with applications that will be depending on high performance it is wise to check out bottlenecks asap. This apply to all risk scenarios based on assumptions, simply check them out first because they might force your next step. I have three checkpoints coming up: (1) Speed of SPI with a Hat…

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Cypress 5LP

Cypress released a Cortex M3 MCU some time ago that caught my interest. I ordered two devkits costing 10.- USD each and all in all their concept actually impresses me. Cypress have for years released MCU’s that are referred to as “PSoC” (Programmable System on Chip). The difference is that a 5LP includes a ARM MCU,…

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10 Mhz Logic Analyzer

One of my interests  for some time have been how to create a MSO (Mixed Signal Oscilloscope). I have several scopes, but I lack a Logic Analyzer on any of them. My first thought was to bit-bang the GPIO of Raspberry PI directly, but as I looked into this I realized that I would not get…

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