
Discover how MATLAB enables programming STM32 microcontrollers without deep architecture knowledge, using blocks for image processing, motor control, and power electronics to produce compact, optimized code for fast prototyping.
Identify the hardware and software basics required to program STM32 with MATLAB, including a microcontroller, USB connectivity, USB-to-TTL converter, DMM, jumpers, and a Windows PC with MATLAB 2014 or later.
Install MATLAB by downloading a trial version or purchasing a license, ensuring you use a 2014 or later version.
Install stm32 blockset for matlab by downloading and unzipping the toolbox, then run the installer to enable adc, can, dac, rtc, sd card, spi, timer, and uart blocks in simulink.
Explore stm32 discovery board and its microcontroller, detailing 168 mhz speed, 1 mb flash, 3.3 v operation, integrated rtc, and dma. Review ports, uarts, and timer features for motor control.
Explore GPIO digital input and output using MATLAB Simulink for STM32. Read a button state and turn on a LED, configure blocks, timing, and deploy to discovery board.
Practice GPIO control by using a constant block to drive a digital output pin, load the model to a microcontroller, and toggle the LED on and off.
Generate a square wave with a 50% duty cycle on STM32 digital out pin using a time-based pulse generator, with a 2 s period or a 0.01 s sample-based method.
Learn to latch a digital input as a toggle switch in MATLAB Simulink, using a flip-flop and logic gates to keep the output on or off with each press.
Explore UART serial communication between a microcontroller and a PC using a USB-to-serial converter. Configure MATLAB blocks for transmitting 32-bit integer data and include data type conversion.
Configure the on-chip adc of STM32 in MATLAB by adding the adc block, selecting the channel, and converting the 0–4096 count to voltage with 3.3/4096, verified via serial monitor.
The lecture demonstrates how a digital value is converted to analog voltage by the on-chip digital-to-analog converter, including reference voltage settings and validating outputs with hardware measurements.
Understand pulse width modulation (PWM) for voltage control in motor speed applications, using on-time and off-time to set a duty cycle and a corresponding average output voltage.
Learn to implement PWM using a timer on STM32 with MATLAB, using basic and advanced PWM blocks, channel configurations, dead time, and complementary outputs for inverter applications.
Programming of advance STM32 microcontroller is very difficult and time consuming if it is done by traditional embedded c programming. It also increase prototype development time.
With this course you will learn programming of STM32 by MATLAB. one can take advantage of of MATLAB toolboxes like PID controller, Filters, various transformations, Image processing tool boxes, Communication protocol toolboxes, drone design and much more.
This will reduce programming time for various intensive algorithm implementation of advance controller like STM32.
The STM32 microcontroller we are going to learn in this STM32F407VGT6. This microcontroller can handle any complicated algorithms like motor control, image processing, IoT, Artificial intelligence etc. This controlller is way batter than what arduino can do.
The MATLAB toolbox that we are going to study generates very efficient code for a particular target microcontroller so further optimization is not required and this supports almost all cortex m4 and cortex m0 series from ST microelectronics.
This course requires very little experience on using and programming microcontroller. With this course you can directly start programming section without worrying about its complex architecture. This course covers all the peripheral of STM32 microcontroller strating from GPIO (Digital Input and Output) to advance motor control PWM (Pulse width Modulation) implementation.
So, join this course and become embedded application developer in no time.