Complex programmable silicon components require a full complementary Ecosystem.
ST and its partners provide an extensive range of Software Development Tools that are increasingly becoming an important criterion in the selection of semiconductor devices.
Microcontrollers and microprocessors have always required assemblers, compilers, and linkers as well as debugging and programming software.
Software developers will also appreciate a wide range of integrated development environments (IDEs) able to configure and initialize the MCU or MPU as well as monitor its behavior in run time.
These tools are available both from ST and from a wide selection of 3rd party suppliers. Most tools are available as free downloads in the following pages while some are available online through the ST distribution network.
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Software development for STM32 made easy with STM32Cube
STMCube™ is an STMicroelectronics original initiative to make developers’ lives easier by reducing development effort, time and cost. STM32Cube is the implementation of STMCube that covers the whole STM32 portfolio and provides:
STM32CubeMX, available under Windows®, Linux® and macOS® is a tool able to generate initialization C-code for STM32 MCUs based on a graphical user interface and one embedded software library (Cube Embedded Software package) per series of STM32 products. This embedded software library comprises the hardware abstraction layer (HAL) and Low-Layer (LL) APIs for the STM32 peripherals and a set of Middleware (RTOS, USB, TCP/IP, Graphics, …) based on components that are either ST developed or open source.
The initialization code, Middleware libraries, HAL and LL APIs, are all compatible with every STM32 compilers. The included example projects are set up for IAR, Keil, and the GCC-based AC6 SW4STM32
STM32Cube comes with hundreds of application code examples and supports all the STM32 series.
