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April 27, 2026
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STLINK-V3PWR to Nucleo board SWD

  • April 27, 2026
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Hi,

I am trying to link up a Nucleo-F411RE board to a STLINK-V3PWR unit via the SWD (CN6) header.
I am going to make a breakout board for the connector. See image below, I am assuming that I do not have to connect T_VCP_RX and T_VCP_TX to anything on the Nucleo board, am I right?

Breakout_board_connection_diagram.png

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Andrew Neil
Super User
April 27, 2026

@NicRoberts wrote:

I am trying to link up a Nucleo-F411RE board to a STLINK-V3PWR unit via the SWD (CN6) header.


On a Nucleo-F411RE board (MB1136), CN6 is the Arduino power header - not SWD:

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https://www.st.com/resource/en/user_manual/um1724-stm32-nucleo64-boards-mb1136-stmicroelectronics.pdf#page=14

via: https://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/nucleo-f411re.html#documentation

 

Did you mean CN2, or CN4 ?

Don't forget that you will need to disconnect the built-in ST-Link before using an external one.

The CN2 jumpers disconnect the SWD lines, but not NRST.

 


@NicRoberts wrote:

I am assuming that I do not have to connect T_VCP_RX and T_VCP_TX to anything on the Nucleo board,


So long as you don't want to use the VCP functions

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