Summary
This chapter introduced the dev-board that we’ll use throughout the book. The STM32 Nucleo-F767ZI dev-board is built around the STM32F767ZI MCU. This MCU can be used in a wide range of applications, such as motor control, medical equipment, and printers. The MCU’s CPU is a 216 MHz ARM Cortex-M7. It has 2 MB of flash memory, and peripherals such as serial communication units, a USB unit, and ADCs.
The dev-board also has a built-in ST-LINK debug probe. Debugging-software runs on a development computer, and it uses the debug probe to provide debugging capabilities for the MCU. For our use, we will load firmware onto the debug probe to make it work like a SEGGER J-Link.
The next chapter presents the software development tools that we’ll use to create the software that runs on the dev-board.
