
. Regarding external power to the core board, a 5V input is recommended. The board uses two diodes for 5V to prevent reverse current, so a higher voltage can be supplied to the 5V header for external power, but since it's an LDO, a large voltage difference is not advised.
For the microcontroller's USB, R155, R54, and R153 can be removed. They were included here because it's a direct copy of the STM32F1 board, but they're not actually used.
The only user-defined I/O on the board is the LED on PB4, which can be used to indicate the board is still functional.
A debugging interface is provided here; my J-Link is perfectly adequate for testing. 

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