Black Pill V3.0 development board

STM32F411CEU6 Black Pill V3.0 development board.

A compact, high-performance microcontroller board suitable for robotics, automation, measurement, data acquisition, signal processing, USB devices and other embedded electronics projects.

The board is based on the STM32F411CEU6 microcontroller with a 32-bit Arm Cortex-M4 core, a single-precision floating-point unit and DSP instructions. The microcontroller operates at frequencies of up to 100 MHz and provides 512 KB of Flash program memory and 128 KB of SRAM.

Technical specifications:

• Microcontroller: STM32F411CEU6;
• Architecture: 32-bit Arm Cortex-M4;
• Maximum clock frequency: 100 MHz;
• Single-precision floating-point unit: FPU;
• DSP digital signal processing instructions;
• Flash program memory: 512 KB;
• SRAM: 128 KB;
• Microcontroller package: UFQFPN48;
• 12-bit ADC with a sampling rate of up to 2.4 MSPS;
• Up to 11 timers, including 16-bit and 32-bit timers;
• DMA controller with 16 data streams;
• RTC real-time clock;
• Hardware CRC calculation unit;
• 96-bit unique microcontroller ID;
• USB 2.0 Full-Speed Device, Host and OTG support;
• SDIO memory card interface;
• Up to 3 I²C interfaces;
• Up to 3 USART interfaces;
• Up to 5 SPI / I²S interfaces;
• SWD and JTAG programming and debugging interfaces;
• USB-C connector for power and data;
• 25 MHz main crystal oscillator;
• 32.768 kHz crystal oscillator for the real-time clock;
• RESET, BOOT0 and user buttons;
• I/O logic voltage: 3.3 V.

Programming:

The board can be programmed and debugged through the SWD interface using an ST-Link programmer. Depending on the installed bootloader and software configuration, firmware can also be uploaded through the USB-C connector.

The board can be used with the STM32CubeIDE development environment and the separate STM32CubeMX peripheral configuration application. It can also be programmed using Arduino IDE with the STM32 board core or by using MicroPython firmware.

Applications:

• Robotics and automation projects;
• Sensor and measurement systems;
• Digital signal processing;
• Motor, actuator and servo control;
• USB device development;
• Data loggers and SD card devices;
• Audio and I²S projects;
• Drone, UAV and RC electronics;
• Educational and experimental projects.

Important: the board input and output pins use 3.3 V logic levels. Not all microcontroller pins are 5 V tolerant. Always check the specifications of the selected pin before applying a 5 V signal.