Another interesting Discovery kit from ST

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Another interesting Discovery kit from ST

Postby Giovanni » Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:39 am

I just found this:

http://www.st.com/internet/evalboard/product/252419.jsp

This new STM32F4 is a beast.

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Re: Another interesting Discovery kit from ST

Postby mabl » Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:30 pm

Wow! This thing can do quite some number crunching....

Now if it also had an PHY integrated...
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Re: Another interesting Discovery kit from ST

Postby barthess » Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:51 pm

Tasty. It is more DSP than MCU.
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Re: Another interesting Discovery kit from ST

Postby Badger » Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:38 pm

The new board is now instock at Farnell. I'm hoping to get one to play with this weekend :D
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Re: Another interesting Discovery kit from ST

Postby Giovanni » Thu Oct 13, 2011 7:16 pm

Instantly bought 3 of them :-)
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Re: Another interesting Discovery kit from ST

Postby Badger » Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:44 pm

Mine has arrived! I'll try and work out how to run a chibios benchmark tonight..
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Re: Another interesting Discovery kit from ST

Postby Giovanni » Fri Oct 14, 2011 5:04 pm

They just informed me that my order has been moved for delivery in week 43... even if it was still available when I ordered.

-1 for farnell and it will be arrow next time.
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Re: Another interesting Discovery kit from ST

Postby Giovanni » Fri Oct 14, 2011 5:20 pm

LOL, after 20 minutes from the previous email, just after I posted the above message, another email specified that the items are being packaged...
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Re: Another interesting Discovery kit from ST

Postby Badger » Fri Oct 14, 2011 8:17 pm

It took me a while to work out how to program this thing, doesn't seem to work under Mac like the old one did, and the serial bootloader protocol seems to have changed. Eventually got it working on windows and managed to upload a hex file. Now I just need to work out how to set chibios up for stm32f4!
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Re: Another interesting Discovery kit from ST

Postby Giovanni » Fri Oct 14, 2011 8:38 pm

It will require at least a specific hal_lld driver and RCC helper driver, I doubt you will be able to use it right now unless you use the ST library for initialization and just use the Kernel.

Luckily the F4 is very close to the F2 so most of the required code is already in place.

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