Demo of the usage USBDevice library with Blue Pill STM32F103C8T6 board.

Dependencies:   USBDevice

STM32F103C8T6 USBSerial Demo

This project contains demo of the USB serial usage for a cheap developer board Blue Pill with STM32F103C8T6 mcu.

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The USB serial port provides a good communication channel between PC and microcontroller. Especially it can be useful for a debug purposes.

Notes

  • by the specifications this board has only 64KB of the flash, but actually it can have 128KB, that will be useful for a debug builds as it requires about 100KB of the flash for this demo.
  • the board can have some problems with an USB because it has wrong value of the pull-up resistor
  • for steady reading of data from a serial port, the project contains python script serial_reader.py (it requires PySerial and six python libraries), that is steady to the board reloading
  • the project depends on the fork of the USBDevice library. This fork contains some fixes and support of the BLUE_PILL_STM32F103C8 target.
  • the mbed-os now contains correct code for a clock initialization of the BLUE_PILL_STM32F103C8 target, so you don't need to adjust the board clocks separately
Revision:
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+/**
+ * The example of the program for STM32F103C8T6 (Blue Pill board).
+ *
+ * This program demonstrate led and usb serial port usage.
+ *
+ * @author Kochin Konstantin
+ */
+#include "USBSerial.h"
+#include "mbed.h"
+#include "stdio.h"
+
+DigitalOut myled(LED1);
+USBSerial usbSerial(0x1f00, 0x2012, 0x0001, false);
+
+int main()
+{
+    uint32_t counter = 0;
+
+    while (true) {
+        usbSerial.printf("I am a USB serial port. Tick %d.\n", counter);
+        counter++;
+
+        myled = !myled;
+
+        wait_ms(1000);
+    }
+}