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STM32CubeF3 main features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2

STM32CubeF3 architecture overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.1

Level 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.1.1

Board Support Package (BSP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.1.2

Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) and Low Layer (LL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.1.3

Basic peripheral usage examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.2

Level 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.2.1

Middleware components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.2.2

Examples based on the middleware components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.3

Level 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

3

STM32CubeF3 firmware package overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3.1

Supported STM32F3 devices and hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3.2

Firmware package overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

4

Getting started with STM32CubeF3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

4.1

Running the first example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

4.2

Developing your own application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

4.2.1

HAL application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

4.2.2

LL application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

4.3

Using STM32CubeMX to generate the initialization C code . . . . . . . . . . 23

4.4

Getting STM32CubeF3 release updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

5

FAQs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

5.1

What is the license scheme for the STM32CubeF3 firmware? . . . . . . . . 24

5.2

Which boards are supported by the STM32CubeF3 firmware package? . 24

5.3

Are any examples provided with the ready-to-use toolset projects? . . . . 24

5.4

Is there any link with Standard Peripheral Libraries? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

5.5

Does the HAL take benefit from interrupts or DMA?

How can this be controlled? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

5.6

How are the product/peripheral specific features managed? . . . . . . . . . . 25

5.7

How can STM32CubeMX generate code based on embedded software? 25