What are SM32CubeProgrammer and STM32CuberMonitor used for?

[jefazo92]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to understand the use of CubeProgrammer and CubeMonitor. With CubeIDE you can already program the MCU so what are the other 2 used for ? I read their descriptions in the STM website but I don't understand why they would be used. Thank you in advance.

[chaaalyy]

a) Not everybody uses CubeIDE ;) Some people write the code maybe on another IDE, compile / link the .bin or .elf and flash it later with the programmer

b) Cube Programmer is also very useful, if you already have a running release and if you want to flash a series of mcu´s =)

Cube Monitor, i´ve heard of... But never tried until now :(

/Charly

[S.Ma]

Cube programmer is a tool to program STM32 through STLink and I think through some other means like bootloaders

Cube monitor is to main use the STLink debugger tool to monitor running application internal variables like in the live watch... graphically with widgets.