The Easiest Way to Program a Microcontroller!

Are you interesting in having a microcontroller that uses a lot less power? Today, I’ll introduce you to the STM32 Ultra Low Power - L476RG, which uses 4 times less energy than an Arduino Mega and has a powerful Cortex processor. I will also talk about MBED, which is a C language that works not only on STMicroelectronics processors, but also on NXP and a series of processors that have an ARM nucleus. Lastly, I'll show you an online compiler.

• STM32L476RGT6 in LQFP64 package

• ARM®32-bit Cortex®-M4 CPU

• Adaptive real-time accelerator

• (ART Accelerator ™) allowing 0-wait state execution

• from Flash memory

• 80 MHz max CPU frequency

• VDD from 1.71 V to 3.6 V

• 1 MB Flash

• 128 KB SRAM

• SPI (3)

• I2C (3)

• USART (3)

• UART (2)

• LPUART (1)

• GPIO (51) with external interrupt capability

• Capacitive sensing with 12 channels

• 12-bit ADC (3) with 16 channels

• 12-bit DAC with 2 channels

More info: https://os.mbed.com/platforms/ST-Nucleo-L476RG/

Go to www.mbed.com and create an account. Fill in the registration data.

Click on the captcha, read and accept the terms, and click "Sign up".

After registering, check your email and log in to the MBED website

If you already have an MBED card plugged into your computer, it will appear as a thumb drive. Inside it, open the MBED.HTM file in the browser.

Or you can go to os.mbed.com/platforms and choose your board from the list of boards.

On the page of your board, click on "Add to your MBED Compiler"

Go to this page with the blink example and click on "Import into Compiler.”

On the screen that opens, click "Import"

Click the "Compile" button so that the server compiles the source code into a binary file.

The browser will begin downloading the binary file as soon as the server finishes compiling.

To transfer the binary to the card, simply drag or copy and paste the downloaded binary file into the card folder, which will appear as a thumb drive.

Here we have the code. We will include the MBED, set the output digital pin, among other commands.

#include "mbed.h"
 
DigitalOut myled(LED1);
 
int main() {
    while(1) {
        myled = 1; // LED is ON
        wait(0.2); // 200 ms
        myled = 0; // LED is OFF
        wait(1.0); // 1 sec
    }
}