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User manual
Getting started with STM32CubeF7 MCU Package
for STM32F7 Series
Introduction
STMCube™is an STMicroelectronics original initiative to make developers’ life easier by
reducing development effort, time and cost. STM32Cube is the implementation of
STMCube™ that covers the whole STM32 portfolio.
STM32Cube includes:
•STM32CubeMX, a graphical software configuration tool that allows the generation of C
initialization code using graphical wizards
•A comprehensive MCU Package, delivered per series (such as STM32CubeF7 for
STM32F7 Series):
– The STM32Cube HAL, an STM32 abstraction layer embedded software, ensuring the
maximum portability across the STM32 portfolio.
– Low-layer APIs (LL) offering a fast light-weight expert-oriented layer which is closer to
the hardware than the HAL. The LL APIs are available only for a set of peripherals.
– A consistent set of middleware components such as RTOS, USB, TCP/IP and
graphics.
– All embedded software utilities, delivered with a full set of examples.
This user manual describes how to get started with the STM32CubeF7 MCU Package.
Section 1 describes the main features of the STM32CubeF7 firmware, part of the
STMCube™initiative.
Section 2 and Section 3 provide an overview of the STM32CubeF7 architecture and MCU
Package structure.
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Contents UM1891
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Contents
1 STM32CubeF7 main features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2 STM32CubeF7 architecture overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.1 Level 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.1.1 Board support package (BSP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1.2 Hardware abstraction layer (HAL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1.3 Basic peripheral usage examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1.4 Low layer (LL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2 Level 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2.1 Middleware components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2.2 Examples based on the middleware components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.3 Level 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
3 STM32CubeF7 MCU Package overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.1 Supported STM32F7 Series devices and hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.2 MCU Package overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4 Getting started with STM32CubeF7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.1 Running your first example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.2 Developing your own application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.2.1 HAL application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.2.2 LL application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.3 Using STM32CubeMX to generate the initialization C code . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.4 Getting STM32CubeF7 release updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.4.1 Installing and running the STM32CubeUpdater program . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5 FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
6 Revision history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
