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Blue Pill
STM32F103C8T6

 Board  Pictures
Name Blue Pill

Part Unknown

Brand Unknown

Origin China

 Microcontroller
Part STM32F103C8T6

Manufacturer ST-Microelectronics Blue Pill: Variants

Core Arm Cortex-M3

Max. Clock
72MHz
Speed

Package LQFP 48 pins

 Internal memories
FLASH 64KiB

SRAM 20KiB
Blue Pill: Perspective view

 Oscillators
HSI 8MHz

LSI 40kHz

HSE 8MHz

LSE 32.768kHz
 Power
Any +3.3V pin (+3.3V)
Sources Any +5V pin (+5V)
USB connector (+5V)

VDDA pin No

VSSA pin No

VREF- pin No
Blue Pill: Top view
VREF+ pin No

Backup
None
battery

 Regulator
Shanghai TX Electronics Sci-
Manufacturer
Tech Co., Ltd

Part TX6211B (DE=A1D)

Package SOT23-5 5 pins Blue Pill: Bottom view

Input +3.6V to +5.5V
 Resources
Output +3.3V @ 300mA
 Variants
Datasheet TX6211B.pdf
 Perspective view
 Top view
 PCB  Bottom view

Color Blue  Schematic

 3D printable mount
Size (w x l) 23mm x 53mm

Mounting Breadboard

 Remarks
Warning: The +5V pins on this board are
directly connected to the +5V pin of the
USB connector. There is no protection in
place. Do not power this board through
USB and an external power supply at the
same time.
 Warning: This board may have a wrong
value of resistor on the USB D+ pin. Instead
of a 1.5kΩ it has either a 10kΩ or 4.7kΩ
resistor. This can be solved by replacing the
resistor with the right value.
Trivia: This board got its name from a
forum post at the STM32duino forums and
is a reference to the movie The Matrix.

 Inputs  Outputs  Connectors  Devices

 Reset button  Power LED  Header 1 None
 BOOT0 jumper  User LED  Header 2
 BOOT1 jumper  SWD header
 USB connector

Inputs & outputs

 Reset button  Power LED

Name RESET Name PWR

Reference - Reference -

Type Button Type LED

Connected to NRST Connected to +3.3V rail

Mode Active low Mode N.A.

 BOOT0 jumper  User LED

Name - Name PC13

Reference - Reference -

Type 2-way jumper Type LED

Connected to BOOT0 Connected to PC13

Mode N.A. Mode Sink

 BOOT1 jumper
Name -
Reference -

Type 2-way jumper

Connected to PB2

Mode N.A.

Connectors & headers

 Header 1 properties  Header 1 pins

Name Unknown # Name Function Connected to

Reference None 1 VB - VBAT

pin header (2.54mm, 20x1, 2 C13 - PC13

Type
male)
3 C14 - PC14

4 C15 - PC15

5 A0 - PA0

6 A1 - PA1

7 A2 - PA2

8 A3 - PA3

9 A4 - PA4

10 A5 - PA5

11 A6 - PA6

12 A7 - PA7

13 B0 - PB0

14 B1 - PB1

15 B10 - PB10

16 B11 - PB11

17 R - NRST

18 3.3 - +3.3V rail

19 G - Ground plane

20 G - Ground plane
 Header 2 properties  Header 2 pins
Name Unknown # Name Function Connected to

Reference None 1 3.3 - +3.3V rail

pin header (2.54mm, 20x1, 2 G - Ground plane

Type
male)
3 5V - +5V rail

4 B9 - PB9

5 B8 - PB8

6 B7 - PB7

7 B6 - PB6

8 B5 - PB5

9 B4 - PB4

10 B3 - PB3

11 A15 - PA15

12 A12 - PA12

13 A11 - PA11

14 A10 - PA10

15 A9 - PA9

16 A8 - PA8

17 B15 - PB15

18 B14 - PB14

19 B13 - PB13

20 B12 - PB12

 SWD header properties  SWD header pins

Name SWD # Name Function Connected to

Reference None 1 3V3 VCC +3.3V rail

pin header (2.54mm, 4x1, 2 DIO SWDIO PA13

Type
male)
3 CLK SWCLK PA14

4 GND GND Ground plane

 USB connector  USB connector pins
properties # Name Function Connected to

Name USB 1 - VCC +5V rail

Reference None 2 - D- PA11

Type USB Micro 3 - D+ PA12

4 - ID N.C.

5 - GND Ground plane

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