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Establish the connection with the STM32F429 Discovery board as follows:
The demonstration software, based on the STemWin GUI library, is already preloaded in the
board's Flash memory. It uses the LCD TFT mounted on the board to show the Menu
based-on-icon view widget (Image Browser, Game, Performance, Clock/Calendar, Video
and System Info module). The status bar indicate the CPU Usage, date, USB disk flash
connection state, alarm and time.
Follow the sequence below to configure the STM32F429 Discovery board and launch the
DISCOVER application:
1.
Ensure that the jumpers JP3 and CN4 are set to "on" (Discovery mode).
2.
Connect the STM32F429 Discovery board to a PC using a USB cable type A/mini-B
through the USB ST-LINK connector CN1, to power the board. The LEDs LD2 (PWR)
and LD1 (COM).
3.
The following applications are available on the screen:
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4.
The demo software, as well as other software examples that allow you to discover the
STM32 F4 series features, are available on www.st.com/stm32f4-discovery.
5.
Develop your own applications starting from the examples.
Figure 5. Hardware environnement
Clock/Calendar and Game
Video Player and Image Browser (play videos and view images from the USB
mass storage connected to CN6)
Performance monitor (watch the CPU load and run a graphical benchmark)
System Info
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