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A compact starter kit with your favorite microcontroller and a socket for click add-on ™ boards. New ideas are just a click away.
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TO OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS I want to express my thanks to you for being interested in our products and for having confidence in MikroElektronika. The primary aim of our company is to design and produce high quality electronic products and to constantly improve the performance thereof in order to better suit your needs.
Table of contents 1. What is STM32 M4 clicker? step 4 – Uploading .HEX file 2. Power supply step 5 – Finish upload 3. STM32F415RG microcontroller Programming with mikroProg programmer ™ Key microcontroller features mikroProg Suite for ARM software ™ ®...
1x8 female headers with SPI, C, UART, RST, PWM, Analog and Interrupt lines as well as 3.3V, 5V and GND power lines. Reset Button MSP432 clicker board can be powered over a USB cable. Power Indication LED Push Buttons...
2. Power supply Figure 2-1: Connecting USB power supply through CN1 connector When the board is powered up the power indication LED will be automatically turned on. The USB connection can provide up to 500mA of current which is more than enough for the operation of all on-board and additional modules. Page 7...
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VCC-3.3V VCC-USB VCC-USB VCC-3.3V LED GREEN EN ADJ SPX3819M5 10 F 0.10µF 10µF 0.10µF VCC-USB VCC-5V 0.1µF 1µF Figure 2-2: Power supply schematic Page 8...
3. MSP432 microcontroller The MSP432 clicker development tool comes with the MSP432 microcontroller. This 32-bit high performance microcontroller is rich with on-chip peripherals and features 1024KB of Flash and 192KB of SRAM. It has integrated full speed USB 2.0. support.
4. Programming the microcontroller Figure 4-1: MSP432 microcontroller The microcontroller can be programmed in two ways: Using USB HID mikroBootloader, Using external mikroProg for MSP432 programmer. ™ Page 10...
Programming with mikroBootloader step 1 – Connecting MSP432 clicker You can program the microcontroller with a bootloader which is preprogrammed by default. To transfer .hex file from a PC to MCU you need bootloader software (mikroBootloader USB HID) which can be downloaded from: https://download.mikroe.com/examples/starter-...
step 2 – Browsing for .HEX file step 3 – Selecting .HEX file Figure 4-3: Browse for HEX Figure 4-4: Selecting HEX Click the Browse for HEX button and from a Select .HEX file using open dialog window. pop-up window (Figure 3.4) choose the .HEX file Click the Open button.
step 4 – Uploading .HEX file Figure 4-5: Begin uploading Figure 4-6: Progress bar To start .HEX file bootloading click the Progress bar enables you to monitor .HEX file uploading. Begin uploading button. Page 13...
5 – Finish upload Figure 4-7: Restarting MCU Figure 4-8: mikroBootloader ready for next job Click OK button after the uploading process is finished. Press Reset button on MSP432 clicker board and wait for 5 seconds. Your program will run automatically. Page 14...
Programming with mikroProg programmer ™ Figure 4-9: mikroProg connector ™ The microcontroller can be programmed with external mikroProg for MSP432 programmer and mikroProg Suite for ARM ™ ™ ® software. The external programmer is connected to the development system via 2x5 JTAG connector soldered on the CN2 connector pads, Figure 4-9.
mikroProg Suite for ARM software ™ ® On-board mikroProg programmer requires special programming software called mikroProg Suite ™ ™ for ARM . This software is used for programming of all supported microcontroller families with ® Cortex -M3 and Cortex -M4 cores. The software has an intuitive interface and SingleClick ®...
5. Buttons and LEDs Figure 5-1: Two buttons, two LEDs and a reset button The board also contains a reset button and a pair of buttons and LEDs. Each of these additional peripherals are located in the bottom area of the board. Reset button is used to manually reset the microcontroller. Pressing the reset button will generate a low voltage level on microcontroller’s reset pin.
6. click boards are plug and play! Up to now, MikroElektronika has released more than 270 mikroBUS compatible ™ click Boards . On the average, one click ™ board is released per week. It is our intention to provide you with as many...
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