I have begun working the STM32L476 Discovery board taking a “Bare metal” approach. It is a great board with some nice peripherals. Code will be built up over time over here
To compile this code you need the a cross compiler for ARM that works on your system. You don’t need a fancy debugger or complicated software : the board has an mbed interface so you can just copy the program you develop to the board as if it was a removable disk.
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