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DIvan.1
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May 13, 2025
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NFC10A1 on NUCLEO -F303

  • May 13, 2025
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Hello,

I would like to develop a system using the NFC chip ST25R200 and the microcontroller STM32F303. The main idea is to be able to read an NFC tag, specifically the ST25DV64KC.

As a first step, I plan to test this using the prototyping board NUCLEO-F303 and the NFC expansion board X-NUCLEO-NFC10A1. I'm using CubeIDE.

I'm sure that ST has prepared everything for a simple and smooth integration. Because of that, I'm confused about what I'm doing wrong.

After configuring the pins and integrating the middleware/software in STM32CubeMX, I get errors when I try to compile the code (I haven't changed anything in the generated code).

 

Here is picture with Pins defined:

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here is Middleware/software package included and set:

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SPI1, Interrupt, GPIO configure:

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After generating code I go to main.c where I want to compile generated code and get a lot of errors:

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Can you please help me understand what I'm doing wrong?
In the past, I worked with the ST25R3912, so I have some experience.
If you need more information, feel free to ask.

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    Best answer by Brian TIDAL

    Hi,

    make sure to select an RFAL configuration. It seems not selected in your case:

    BrianTIDAL_0-1747139936791.png

    This should be something like:

    BrianTIDAL_1-1747139993909.png

    See attached ioc file as an example.

    Rgds

    BT

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    Brian TIDALAnswer
    Technical Moderator
    May 13, 2025

    Hi,

    make sure to select an RFAL configuration. It seems not selected in your case:

    BrianTIDAL_0-1747139936791.png

    This should be something like:

    BrianTIDAL_1-1747139993909.png

    See attached ioc file as an example.

    Rgds

    BT

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      DIvan.1Author
      Graduate
      May 13, 2025

      That solved my problem.

      Thank you very much.

      If I want to use NFC-V and allowed energy harvesting for tag (ST25DV64KC)...

      1. what is the minimum of the functions I need to use?

      2. what of these options I need to use:

      image.pngimage.png

       

      I'm a bit sceptical with time spending using all that functions.

       

      Thank you and best regards,

       

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      Brian TIDAL
      Technical Moderator
      May 13, 2025

      Hi,

      in a perfect world, you should choose Custom_config for the RFAL and then select RFAL_FEATURE_NFCV and RFAL_FEATURE_ST25xV and regenerate. In that case the project also defines RFAL_ANALOG_CONFIG_CUSTOM whereas no custom analog config are provided, so #define RFAL_ANALOG_CONFIG_CUSTOM needs to be manually commented in the nfc_conf.h.

      Unselected technologies are then not used in the discovery loop and the linker removes the unused part of the code. 

      Rgds

      BT

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        Brian TIDAL
        Technical Moderator
        May 14, 2025

        Hi,

        Sorry for the confusion about RFAL_ANALOG_CONFIG_CUSTOM, I was using a pre-release version of the FW package.

        Regarding RAM/FLASH usage

        Default:

        BrianTIDAL_0-1747227903785.png

        Custom:

        BrianTIDAL_1-1747227957648.png

        Make sure to use the following compiler settings:

        BrianTIDAL_2-1747228173313.png

        and the following linker setting:

        BrianTIDAL_3-1747228202219.png

        Check the map file for the custom build vs the default build: functions such as rfalNfcaPollerInitialize should be absent in the custom build map file.

        Also adjust the compiler optimization level according to your needs.

        Rgds

        BT

         

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