stlink-org/stlink

Features

• Firmware Flashing - Provides core functionality to write binary or hex files directly to the flash memory of supported microcontrollers.
• STM32 Target Programming - Provides a comprehensive toolset for flashing firmware and managing memory specifically for STM32 microcontrollers.
• Flash Memory Access - Provides low-level interfaces for reading, writing, and erasing raw flash memory on target microcontrollers.
• Flash Memory Erasing Tools - Provides a function to perform a mass erase of the microcontroller's flash memory to remove existing firmware.
• Command Line Interfaces - Ships a suite of standalone command-line utilities for flashing, erasing, and querying microcontroller hardware.
• GDB Server Implementations - Implements a GDB remote serial protocol server to allow external debuggers to control target hardware execution.
• Toolchain Debugging Servers - Implements a remote server that allows external debuggers to control execution and inspect registers via SWD/JTAG.
• Embedded Firmware Development - Supports the iterative development of ARM Cortex firmware through integrated flashing and device reset capabilities.
• Serial Wire Debug Probes - Provides a Serial Wire Debug (SWD) interface to manage microcontroller memory and processor state.
• Microcontroller Flash Programmers - Ships a programmer for writing binary and hex files to ARM Cortex-M based microcontroller flash memory.
• Embedded Systems Debugging - Enables low-level analysis, register inspection, and execution control for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers.
• USB Device Communication - Implements low-level USB communication to transfer data and commands between the host computer and the programmer board.
• Flash Address Mapping - Provides the mechanism to translate raw binaries into specific memory address writes for the target microcontroller.
• Flash Memory Exports - Implements a process for reading the contents of microcontroller flash memory and saving the data to a host file.
• Graphical Flashing Interfaces - Provides a graphical user interface for flashing binaries and exporting memory from connected programmers.
• Option Byte Configurations - Allows reading and modifying device configuration bytes that control hardware options and boot behaviors.
• Programmer Management Interfaces - Ships a graphical user interface for connecting to programmers, flashing binaries, and viewing device memory address maps.
• Semihosting Interfaces - Implements semihosting to redirect microcontroller input and output to the host terminal for simplified logging.
• Semihosting Redirections - Intercepts microcontroller system calls to redirect input and output to the host terminal for simplified debugging.
• Instrumentation Trace Streaming - Captures real-time instrumentation data from the target chip and streams it back to the host via ITM.
• Real-Time Trace Collectors - Implements real-time collection and streaming of trace packets from the microcontroller to the host.
• Hardware Reset Triggers - Provides a mechanism to trigger hardware-level reboots of the target microcontroller to initialize the system.
• Execution Tracing - Records the sequence of operations and execution flow on the target device for troubleshooting.
• Remote Debug Execution Control - Provides the capability to control and inspect code execution on a target device using a remote debugging interface.

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