P-L496G-CELL01 – 2G/3G Cellular to Cloud Pack with STM32L496AG MCU and Quectel UG96

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The P-L496G-CELL01 STM32 discovery pack for 2G/3G cellular to cloud (STM32-C2C/2G-3G) is a turnkey development platform for cellular and cloud technology based solutions.

The pack is composed of an STM32L496AGI6-based low-power discovery mother board with preloaded firmware, and an STMod+ cellular expansion board with antenna based.
In this evaboard is used the Quectel UG96.

Key Features

  • STM32L496AGI6 microcontroller featuring 1 Mbyte of Flash memory and 320 Kbytes of RAM in a UFBGA169 package
  • USB OTG HS
  • On-board current measurement
  • SAI Audio CODEC
  • ST-MEMS digital microphones
  • 8-Mbit PSRAM
  • 2 user LEDs
  • 1 user and 1 reset push-buttons
  • 4-direction joystick with selection button
  • Board connectors:
    • Camera 8 bit
    • USB with Micro-AB
    • Stereo headset jack including analog microphone input
    • microSD™ card
  • Board expansion connectors:
    • Arduino™ Uno V3
    • STMod+
  • Board expansion features:
    • Quectel UG96 worldwide cellular modem penta-band 2G/3G module, 7.2 Mbps downlink, 5.76 Mbps uplink
    • Modem reset red LED and modem signaling green LED
    • Switchable SIM interface, eSIM and MicroSIM
    • Pulse 2G/3G SMA antenna for frequency ranges: 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / 2100 MHz
  • Flexible power-supply options: ST-LINK, USB VBUS , or external sources
  • On-board ST-LINK/V2-1 SWD,TAG debugger/programmer with USB re- enumeration capability: mass storage, virtual COM port and debug port
  • Comprehensive free software libraries and examples available with the STM32Cube package
  • Support of a wide choice of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) including IAR™, Keil® , GCC-based IDEs

X-CUBE-CLD-GEN is a generic example and is here.
This package support this features:

  • Ready-to-run firmware examples with Wi-Fi® , Ethernet, or cellular connectivity to support quick evaluation and development of IoT cloud applications using MQTT and HTTP protocols
  • Connectivity to several IoT cloud platforms:
    MQTT protocol: Eclipse Mosquitto™, Ubidots
    HTTP protocol: Exosite, Grovestreams, Ubidots
  • Cloud communication protocols kept as generic as possible, allowing easy migration of applications to different cloud providers
  • TLS encryption
  • Cellular, Ethernet and Wi-Fi® connectivity
  • Telemetry data reporting
  • LED remote control

Find more info here.