One of the problems with the serial port is that it is rather high voltage - up to 15v. The STM operates at 3.3v - so we cannot directly connect it. To make this work properly we use a MAX3232 IC, which converts from one level to another - allowing us to talk to the STM32 board.
For this section, you will need 5 x 0.1uf capacitors (I used polyester ones which are cheap) and a MAX3232 IC (which is a couple of dollars).
On the breadboard :
1) Plug in the IC in a sensible spot, notch up.
2) Connect 3v3 to pin 16 and GND to pin 15. (these pins are on the top left of the STM board)
3) Put capacitors across - pins 1 and 3, pins 4 and 5, pins 6 and 15, pins 16 and 15, and pins 2 and 16.
4) Connect the cable you made in the last step so that :-
- RxD (pin 2 on the socket) is connected to pin 14
- TxD (pin 3 on the socket) is connected to pin 13
- GND (pin 5 on the socket) is connected to pin 15
Now put the short back in between pins 12 and 11 - this is the 'loopback' test again.
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| The completed serial interface, with the "loopback" short in place. |
If you do this and it is working, as before the characters should echo back as you type them in to GTKTerm or whatever terminal program you use - you have connected the in and out together again, but at "the other side" of the chip where the voltages are okay for the STM32.
Now take the loop-back out. Here is the circuit. (Apologies for the text positioning, there are some bugs here)
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| Serial Interface Circuit |
The next time we will start talking to the Microcontroller.
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ReplyDeleteJust as a tip, the Dallas DS275 does the same job without the capacitors: http://www.maxim-ic.com/datasheet/index.mvp/id/2929
ReplyDelete(example circuit: http://foo.joose.biz/ds275.png )
Hi,
ReplyDeletePaul thank you for your great tutorials!
I saw that you are using 3.3V for max232 voltage, is it working like this?
Sorry, now I saw that you are using max3232
ReplyDeleteThere is an error on circuit schematic - on the left-hand side, pin 3 of "STM32 MCU" header probably should be connected with IC1 pin 12 (RDO) instead of with IC1 pin 10 (RTSI), if it is meant to act as simple level translator 3.3v asynchronous serial communications port <-> RS232
ReplyDeleteHi, thank you for your tutorial
ReplyDeletebut I still fail, I think it because of configuration of CN2 and CN3 connector
I still confuse what we need to do to CN2 and CN3 connector to make the processor work in system memory mode
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