README ====== This README discusses issues unique to NuttX configurations for the STMicro Nucleo-144 board for STM32L4 chips. Contents ======== - Nucleo-144 Boards - Nucleo L496ZG - Hardware - Button - LED - U[S]ARTs and Serial Consoles - SPI - SDIO - MMC - SPI Test - Configurations nsh Nucleo-144 Boards: ================= The Nucleo-144 is a standard board for use with several STM32 parts in the LQFP144 package. Variants with a STM32L4 MCU include: STM32 Part Board Variant Name ------------- ------------------ STM32L496ZGT6 NUCLEO-L496ZG STM32L496ZGT6P NUCLEO-L496ZG-P STM32L4A6ZGT6 NUCLEO-L4A6ZG STM32L4R5ZIT6 NUCLEO-L4R5ZI STM32L4R5ZIT6P NUCLEO-L4R5ZI-P ------------- ------------------ This directory supports only the STM32L4 variants of Nucleo-144. For others, see configs/nucleo-144 configuration. Please read the User Manual UM2179: Getting started with STM32 Nucleo board software development tools and take note of the Powering options for the board (6.3 Power supply and power selection) and the Solder bridges based hardware configuration changes that are configurable (6.11 Solder bridges). Also note that UM1727 is not valid for L4 Nucleo-144 boards! Common Board Features: --------------------- Peripherals: 8 leds, 2 push button (3 LEDs, 1 button) under software control Debug: STLINK/V2-1 debugger/programmer Uses a STM32F103CB to provide a ST-Link for programming, debug similar to the OpenOcd FTDI function - USB to JTAG front-end. Expansion I/F: ST Zio and Extended Ardino and Morpho Headers Nucleo L496ZG ============= ST Nucleo L496ZG board from ST Micro is supported. See http://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/products/evaluation-tools/product-evaluation-tools/mcu-eval-tools/stm32-mcu-eval-tools/stm32-mcu-nucleo/nucleo-l496zg.html The Nucleo L496ZG order part number is NUCLEO-L496ZG. It is one member of the STM32 Nucleo-144 board family. NUCLEO-L496ZG Features: ---------------------- Microprocessor: STM32L496ZGT6 Core: ARM 32-bit Cortex®-M4 CPU with FPU, 80 MHz, MPU, and DSP instructions. Memory: 1024 KB Flash 320KB of SRAM (including 64KB of SRAM2) ADC: 3×12-bit: up to 24 channels DMA: 2 X 7-stream DMA controllers with FIFOs and burst support Timers: Up to 13 timers: (2x 16-bit lowpower), two 32-bit timers, 2x watchdogs, SysTick GPIO: 114 I/O ports with interrupt capability LCD: LCD-TFT Controller, Parallel interface I2C: 4 × I2C interfaces (SMBus/PMBus) U[S]ARTs: 3 USARTs, 2 UARTs (27 Mbit/s, ISO7816 interface, LIN, IrDA, modem control) SPI/12Ss: 6/3 (simplex) (up to 50 Mbit/s), 3 with muxed simplex I2S for audio class accuracy via internal audio PLL or external clock QSPI: Dual mode Quad-SPI SAIs: 2 Serial Audio Interfaces CAN: 2 X CAN interface SDMMC interface USB: USB 2.0 full-speed device/host/OTG controller with on-chip PHY Camera Interface: 8/14 Bit CRC calculation unit TRG: True random number generator RTC See https://developer.mbed.org/platforms/ST-Nucleo-L496ZG for additional information about this board. Hardware ======== < Section needs updating > GPIO - there are 144 I/O lines on the STM32L4xxZx with various pins pined out on the Nucleo 144. Keep in mind that: 1) The I/O is 3.3 Volt not 5 Volt like on the Arduino products. 2) The Nucleo-144 board family has 3 pages of Solder Bridges AKA Solder Blobs (SB) that can alter the factory configuration. We will note SB in effect but will assume the factory default settings. Our main concern is establishing a console and LED utilization for debugging. Because so many pins can be multiplexed with so many functions, the above mentioned graphic may be helpful in identifying a serial port. There are 4 choices that can be made from the menuconfig: CONFIG_NUCLEO_CONSOLE_ARDUINO or CONFIG_NUCLEO_CONSOLE_MORPHO or CONFIG_NUCLEO_CONSOLE_VIRTUAL or CONFIG_NUCLEO_CONSOLE_NONE The CONFIG_NUCLEO_CONSOLE_NONE makes no preset for the console. You should still visit the U[S]ART selection and Device Drivers to disable any U[S]ART remaining. The CONFIG_NUCLEO_CONSOLE_ARDUINO configurations assume that you are using a standard Arduino RS-232 shield with the serial interface with RX on pin D0 and TX on pin D1 from USART6: -------- --------------- STM32F7 ARDUIONO FUNCTION GPIO -- ----- --------- ----- DO RX USART6_RX PG9 D1 TX USART6_TX PG14 -- ----- --------- ----- The CONFIG_NUCLEO_CONSOLE_MORPHO configurations uses Serial Port 8 (USART8) with TX on PE1 and RX on PE0. Serial ------ SERIAL_RX PE_0 SERIAL_TX PE_1 The CONFIG_NUCLEO_CONSOLE_VIRTUAL configurations uses Serial Port 3 (USART3) with TX on PD8 and RX on PD9. Serial ------ SERIAL_RX PD9 SERIAL_TX PD8 These signals are internally connected to the on board ST-Link Of course if your design has used those pins you can choose a completely different U[S]ART to use as the console. In that Case, you will need to edit the include/board.h to select different U[S]ART and / or pin selections. Buttons ------- B1 USER: the user button is connected to the I/O PC13 (Tamper support, SB173 ON and SB180 OFF) LEDs ---- The Board provides a 3 user LEDs, LD1-LD3 LED1 (Green) PB_0 (SB120 ON and SB119 OFF) LED2 (Blue) PB_7 (SB139 ON) LED3 (Red) PB_14 (SP118 ON) - When the I/O is HIGH value, the LEDs are on. - When the I/O is LOW, the LEDs are off. These LEDs are not used by the board port unless CONFIG_ARCH_LEDS is defined. In that case, the usage by the board port is defined in include/board.h and src/stm32_autoleds.c. The LEDs are used to encode OS related events as follows when the LEDs are available: SYMBOL Meaning RED GREEN BLUE ------------------- ----------------------- --- ----- ---- LED_STARTED NuttX has been started OFF OFF OFF LED_HEAPALLOCATE Heap has been allocated OFF OFF ON LED_IRQSENABLED Interrupts enabled OFF ON OFF LED_STACKCREATED Idle stack created OFF ON ON LED_INIRQ In an interrupt NC NC ON (momentary) LED_SIGNAL In a signal handler NC ON OFF (momentary) LED_ASSERTION An assertion failed ON NC ON (momentary) LED_PANIC The system has crashed ON OFF OFF (flashing 2Hz) LED_IDLE MCU is is sleep mode ON OFF OFF OFF - means that the OS is still initializing. Initialization is very fast so if you see this at all, it probably means that the system is hanging up somewhere in the initialization phases. GREEN - This means that the OS completed initialization. BLUE - Whenever and interrupt or signal handler is entered, the BLUE LED is illuminated and extinguished when the interrupt or signal handler exits. VIOLET - If a recovered assertion occurs, the RED and blue LED will be illuminated briefly while the assertion is handled. You will probably never see this. Flashing RED - In the event of a fatal crash, all other LEDs will be extinguished and RED LED will FLASH at a 2Hz rate. Thus if the GREEN LED is lit, NuttX has successfully booted and is, apparently, running normally. If the RED LED is flashing at approximately 2Hz, then a fatal error has been detected and the system has halted. Serial Consoles =============== USART3 ------ Default board is configured to use USART3 as console. Pins and Connectors: FUNC GPIO Connector Pin NAME ---- --- ------- ---- TXD: PC4 CN8-9, A4 RXD: PC5 CN8-11, A5 ---- --- ------- ---- You must use a 3.3 TTL to RS-232 converter or a USB to 3.3V TTL Nucleo 144 FTDI TTL-232R-3V3 ------------- ------------------- TXD - CN8-9 - RXD - Pin 5 (Yellow) RXD - CN8-11 - TXD - Pin 4 (Orange) GND - GND Pin 1 (Black) ------------- ------------------- *Note you will be reverse RX/TX Use make menuconfig to configure USART3 as the console: CONFIG_STM32L4_USART3=y CONFIG_USART3_SERIALDRIVER=y CONFIG_USART3_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_USART3_RXBUFSIZE=256 CONFIG_USART3_TXBUFSIZE=256 CONFIG_USART3_BAUD=115200 CONFIG_USART3_BITS=8 CONFIG_USART3_PARITY=0 CONFIG_USART3_2STOP=0 USART2 ------ USART 2 could be used as console as well. Virtual COM Port ---------------- Yet another option is to use LPUART1 and the USB virtual COM port. This option may be more convenient for long term development, but is painful to use during board bring-up. However as LPUART peripheral has not been implemented for STM32L4, this cannot currently be used. Solder Bridges. This configuration requires: PG7 LPUART1 TX SB131 ON and SB195 OFF (Default) PG8 LPUART1 RX SB130 ON and SB193 OFF (Default) Default ------- As shipped, the virtual COM port is enabled. SPI --- Since this board is so generic, having a quick way to vet the SPI configuration seams in order. So the board provides a quick test that can be selected vi CONFIG_NUCLEO_SPI_TEST that will initalise the selected buses (SPI1-SPI3) and send some text on the bus at application initalization time board_app_initialize. SDIO ---- To test the SD performance one can use a SparkFun microSD Sniffer from https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9419 or similar board and connect it as follows: VCC V3.3 CN11 16 GND GND CN11-8 CMD PD2 CN11-4 CLK PC12 CN11-3 DAT0 - PC8 CN12-2 DAT1 - PC9 CN12-1 DAT2 PC10 CN11-1 CD PC11 CN11-2 Configurations ============== nsh: ---- Configures the NuttShell (nsh) located at apps/examples/nsh for the Nucleo-144 boards. The Configuration enables the serial interfaces on USART6. Support for builtin applications is enabled, but in the base configuration no builtin applications are selected (see NOTES below). NOTES: 1. This configuration uses the mconf-based configuration tool. To change this configuration using that tool, you should: a. Build and install the kconfig-mconf tool. See nuttx/README.txt see additional README.txt files in the NuttX tools repository. b. If this is the initial configuration then execute ./tools/configure.sh nucleo-l496zg/nsh in nuttx/ in order to start configuration process. Caution: Doing this step more than once will overwrite .config with the contents of the nucleo-l496zg/nsh/defconfig file. c. Execute 'make oldconfig' in nuttx/ in order to refresh the configuration. d. Execute 'make menuconfig' in nuttx/ in order to start the reconfiguration process. e. Save the .config file to reuse it in the future starting at step d. 2. By default, this configuration uses the ARM GNU toolchain for Linux. That can easily be reconfigured, of course. CONFIG_HOST_LINUX=y : Builds under Linux CONFIG_ARMV7M_TOOLCHAIN_GNU_EABIL=y : ARM GNU for Linux 3. Although the default console is LPUART1 (which would correspond to the Virtual COM port) I have done all testing with the console device configured for USART3 (see instruction above under "Serial Consoles).