AFCI offline kit - Part 6: Documentation, ST manuals, papers, statistics, installation guide & master index
Offline development kit for an arc-fault detection / electrical-fire prevention system (current sensor -> STM32F407 ADC+DMA -> FFT/STFT features -> quantized DNN -> trip). Target offline PC: Windows 10/11 x64, CPU-only Python training.
Contents: documentation, papers, statistics and the master index
Start with 00_START_HERE_MASTER_INDEX.md (list of all 19 parts) and 00_INSTALLATION_GUIDE.md (full offline installation guide for every tool).
| File / folder | Contents |
|---|---|
00_START_HERE_MASTER_INDEX.md |
Index of AFCI_part1 … AFCI_part19 and install order |
00_INSTALLATION_GUIDE.md |
Full installation guide (Windows 10/11 x64, offline): ST-LINK driver, CubeIDE, CubeMX + F4 package + X-CUBE-AI, CubeProgrammer, CubeCLT, ST Edge AI Core, CubeMonitor, GCC/OpenOCD, VS Code, Python envs, model zoo, CMSIS-DSP setup, datasets, KiCad, checks, troubleshooting |
00_ST_MANUAL_DOWNLOAD_CHECKLIST.md |
ST items checklist — now all included (tools in Parts 16–19, documents in 07_ST_STM32F4_and_tools_docs/) |
LINKS_NOT_INCLUDED.md |
Paid standards (IEC 62606, UL 1699), registration-only datasets, papers that could not be fetched |
PROJECT_NOTES.md |
Architecture, evaluation method, reported SOTA numbers, products to study, NFPA statistics — summary of the planning conversation |
DOCUMENT_INDEX.md / docs_index.json |
Title, year and source URL of every PDF below |
01_Papers_open_access/ |
42 papers/theses: lightweight CNNs, attention, CNN-Transformer, ShuffleNet, LSTM, wavelet/VMD features, multi-feature fusion, dual learnable FFT/wavelet (2026), Arc-FaultNet (2026), arc-fault review (arXiv 2023), DC/PV arc, theses (UNC Charlotte PhD 2024, CTU Prague, Waterloo), simulation environments |
02_TI_reference_designs/ |
TIDA-010971 design guide (edge-AI AC arc detection), SDAA252 (AC arc detection with edge AI on MSPM0), SBAA773 (log-amp arc detection), MSPM0G5187 datasheet + TRM + LaunchPad guide, SDAA429, TIDA-010955, TIDA-010231 |
03_Arm_Cortex-M4/ |
Arm Cortex-M4 Devices Generic User Guide (DUI0553 rev A & B) — stand-in for ST PM0214 |
04_AFDD_AFCI_industry/ |
ABB AFDD handbook (German) + S-ARC1/DS-ARC1 docs, Siemens 5SM6 AFD primer & catalog, Schneider white paper, BEAMA AFDD guides, Leviton TrueArc flyer, NEMA AFCI paper, UL (Dini) arc-fault article |
05_Fire_statistics/ |
NFPA Home Electrical Fires + supporting tables, NFPA Home Structure Fires + tables, CPSC residential fire loss estimates |
07_ST_STM32F4_and_tools_docs/ |
20 ST PDFs: DS8626 (F405/F407 datasheet, Rev 12), RM0090 reference manual (Rev 22), PM0214 Cortex-M4 programming manual, ES0182 errata, UM1725 HAL/LL, UM1730, UM1472 (F4-Discovery), UM1718 CubeMX, UM2609 CubeIDE, UM2237 CubeProgrammer, UM2526 X-CUBE-AI, AN3116/AN2834/AN4073 (ADC), AN4031 (DMA), AN4776 (timers), AN4841 (CMSIS DSP), DT0088 (FIR), UM3461 + AN4435 (IEC 60730 Class B); ST Edge AI Core HTML docs 2.2.0 (matches Part 18) and 4.1.0 (web, newer); ST_docs_manifest.json with revisions and sources |
06_Government_and_test_reports/ |
Sandia/OSTI arc-fault reports (AFCI tests, unwanted-tripping survey, FFT vs wavelet, detection-algorithm evaluation, arc-fault primer), CPSC/UL AFCI technology reports, NAHB white paper |
ST documents are © STMicroelectronics (copies of the PDFs published on st.com, retrieved via the Internet Archive). Copyright: papers from MDPI and Frontiers are CC-BY; US-government reports (OSTI/Sandia, CPSC) are public; vendor documents, NFPA reports, arXiv papers and theses remain the property of their publishers and are mirrored here for offline study (source URLs in DOCUMENT_INDEX.md).
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Master index
This is one of 19 repos (AFCI_part1 … AFCI_part19). Overview of all parts: AFCI_part6 / 00_START_HERE_MASTER_INDEX.md · Installation: AFCI_part6 / 00_INSTALLATION_GUIDE.md
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