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| | Cover Photo by Matan Segev from PexelsCover Recently, I purchased a NodeMCU from AliExpress for about $4. The reason I did this was to find out what all the fuss is about with ESP8266. NodeMCU is an open source IoT platform. It includes firmware which runs on the ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC from Espressif Systems, and...
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| | JTAG is a physical hardware interface that makes it possible, among other things, to extract the firmware image from electronic devices.
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| | You programmed STM32 microcontroller using Nucleo or Discovery boards. That means you used Serial Wire Debug (SWD) for programming/debugging. Now, you are designing a PCB with a STM32 microcontroller on it, which means you have to be able to program it. One solution is uploading the code through a bootloader - a small piece of software, made by ST that has been saved in the protected (read-only) memory of the microcontroller.
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| [AI summary] A blogger details the painful disassembly, firmware dumping, and flashing process of installing Coreboot on a ThinkPad T420, reporting mixed results regarding hardware compatibility and OS support.