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Visitor II
August 29, 2025
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Unable to connect to F103 MCU

  • August 29, 2025
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Hi, 
I forgot to add the  pins in my STM cube project and flashed my MCU. Now I am not able to connect to my MCU. I am working with the STMF103RCT6 MCU. I tried giving 3.3V to the boot pin and connect a UART to serial converter  to my board. But it still didn't connect with cube programmer. I am attaching the screenshot of the error for your reference. Please advise what to do.

 

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    Best answer by Peter BENSCH

    You can only use USART1 with the integrated bootloader of the STM32F103. See also the data sheet, section 2.3.10 or AN2606, section 18.1. For other U(S)ARTs, you would need to use your own bootloader.

    Regards
    /Peter

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    Technical Moderator
    August 29, 2025

    Which of the 5 U(S)ARTs are you trying to use for the bootloader?

    Have you also tried baud rates lower than 115200?

    Regards
    /Peter

    Visitor II
    August 29, 2025

    I am using UART 4. PC10 is the Tx pin and PC11 is the RX pin. I have only tried baud rates 115200 and 9600.

     

    Technical Moderator
    August 29, 2025

    You can only use USART1 with the integrated bootloader of the STM32F103. See also the data sheet, section 2.3.10 or AN2606, section 18.1. For other U(S)ARTs, you would need to use your own bootloader.

    Regards
    /Peter