I recently started studying STM32 microcontrollers (BluePill STM32F103 dev board + ST-link V2 clone). I was wondering if it is possible to add serial communication to ST-Link clone?
From what I understood, those clones are copied form ST-link schematic of official Nucleo boards. The ST-link on Nucleo boards is build with STM32F103CBT6 and pins 12 and 13 (PA_2 and PA_3) are used as TX and RX for serial communication with target microcontroller (and connects to PA_2 and PA_3 pins of targer). See page 65 of official Nucleo documentation
Meanwhile, on ST-link clones those pins are floating and not connected to anything
If I solder 2 wires to pins 12 and 13 of STM32 microcontroller on ST-link clone, would I be able to use those for serial communication with target microcontroller on BluePill board (PA_10 and PA_9 or PA_2 and PA_3)?
UPDATE:
Looks like specifically this ST-link clone is made based on schematics of ST-link on old Discovery boards like this:
In this "configuration" in can't be converted into ST-Link with Serial port feature, since this feature (as Virtual Com port) was added in ST-Link V2.1 on Nucleo boards and has another schematic:
FINAL UPDATE
The topic is not relevant anymore. Recently STMicroelectronics released STLink V3 Mini with very affordable price and same functionality (SWD + VCP) which I bought. Now it can be bought at about $10
