Not sure this is the right forum for this question, but I’ve been stuck on this for weeks. Tried ST community forums and others without answer.
I know CW has had some development on this since the CW v4.x didn’t work reliably as opposed to v5.x STM32F serial programmer. (Source for it is here: https://github.com/newaetech/chipwhisperer/blob/develop/software/chipwhisperer/hardware/naeusb/programmer_stm32fserial.py )
Objective: to be able to program STM32F chips via UART in bootloader mode (and do other bootloader operations) from outside. This is documented in https://www.st.com/resource/en/application_note/cd00167594.pdf and https://www.st.com/resource/en/application_note/cd00264342.pdf
The issue: when I try either the procedure from STM32 documentation or the CW STM32 code, it somehow doesn’t work in my script (I use external USB-serial connection, not the one through CW). I get only one command executed: the “Get” command, others don’t work. It works no matter how many times I execute it. CW 5.x STM32 programmer that is run by CW Nano or CW Lite works now without problems.
How the STM32 serial protocol should work in short:
- set BOOT0 pin to 1, reset STM32 (the pattern depends on specific STMFx, but in general works like that)
- send 0x7F via UART, this selects the UART STM32 bootloader which allows the programming (tricky thing here - STM32 tries to guess the baudrate, there is no fixed one, CW 5.x uses 115200)
- send 2 byte commands via UART, e.g. “0x00 0xFF” for Get, “0x02 0xFD” for “Get ID”, “0x31 0xCE” for “Write memory”
- every command, including the first 0x7F should be followed by 0x79 (ACK) or 0x1F (NACK), sometimes more times
- STM32 docs say, that you should send a XOR checksum byte after every command
The difference between CW STM32 programmer and my script (https://pastebin.com/VJaWFEvt): CW STM32 programmer doesn’t send the XOR checksum, yet somehow works, but I can’t send even one command without it.
Snapshot from logic analyzer:
CW STM programmer (channel 0 is TX, channel 1 is RX; just the initial 0x7F to select UART in bootloader is missing from picture):
- both commands shown have 0x79 ACK as result.
Result from my script (channel 1 is TX, channel 0 is RX), first command “0x00 0xFF” works, the “0x02 0xFD” command breaks no matter what, with XOR checksum or not:
