Post : A better template for your STM32 F3 dev board
URL : http://hackaday.com/2013/01/20/a-better-template-for-your-stm32-f3-dev-board/
Posted : January 20, 2013 at 5:30 am
Author : Brian Benchoff
Tags : stm32, STM32 F3
Categories : ARM, Software Development

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If you've picked up one of those really cool STM32 ARM dev boards, you've probably poked around looking for a good toolchain. No fear, then, because [Matt] has your back. He put together a template (https://github.com/mblythe86/stm32f3-discovery-basic-template) for the ARM Cortex-M4 powered STM32 board.

[Matt] had been using a template for the STM32 F4 we'd covered before (http://hackaday.com/2012/09/27/stm32-f4-discovery-tutorial-using-open-source-tools/) , but found the implementation a bit lacking. Wanting to exploit the functionality of his fancy STM32 F3 board, [Matt] took the F0 template whipped up by our very own [Mike S] (http://hackaday.com/2012/06/17/template-for-building-stm32f0-discovery-project-in-gcc/) and got it to work with the newer, fancier dev board.

There are a few bonuses to using [Matt]'s template; apparently the ARM chip in the F3 Discovery board has a hardware floating-point unit that is inaccessible using the Code Sourcery G++: Lite Edition toolchain. [Matt]'s use of gcc-arm-embedded allows access to the hardware FPU, a great benefit for a great board.

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