Nucleo H503RB

Overview

The Nucleo-H503RB board features an ARM® Cortex®-M33 core-based STM32H503RBT6 microcontroller with a wide range of connectivity support and configurations. Here are some highlights of the Nucleo-H503RB board:

  • STM32H503RB microcontroller featuring 128 Kbytes of Flash memory and 32 Kbytes of SRAM in LQFP64 package

  • Board connectors:

    • User USB Type-C®

    • MIPI10 for debugging (SWD/JTAG)

    • Arduino® Uno V3 connectivity (CN5, CN6, CN8, CN9)

    • ST morpho extension connector (CN7, CN10)

  • Flexible board power supply:

    • ST-LINK USB VBUS

    • user USB connector

    • external sources

  • On-board ST-LINK/V3EC debugger/programmer:

    • mass storage

    • Virtual COM port

    • debug port

  • One user LED shared with ARDUINO® Uno V3

  • Two push-buttons: USER and RESET

  • 32.768 kHz crystal oscillator

  • 24 MHz HSE crystal oscillator

More information about the board can be found at the NUCLEO_H503RB website.

NUCLEO-H503RB

Hardware

The STM32H503xx devices are a high-performance microcontrollers family (STM32H5 series) based on the high-performance Arm® Cortex®-M33 32-bit RISC core. They operate at a frequency of up to 250 MHz.

  • Core: Arm® Cortex®-M33 CPU with FPU, MPU, 375 DMIPS (Dhrystone 2.1), and DSP instructions

  • ART Accelerator

  • Memories

    • 128 Kbytes of embedded flash memory with ECC, two banks of read-while-write

    • 2-Kbyte OTP (one-time programmable)

    • 32-Kbyte SRAM with ECC

    • 2 Kbytes of backup SRAM (available in the lowest power modes)

  • Clock management

    • Internal oscillators: 64 MHz HSI, 48 MHz HSI48, 4 MHz CSI, 32 kHz LSI

    • Two PLLs for system clock, USB, audio, and ADC

    • External oscillators: 4 to 50 MHz HSE, 32.768 kHz LSE

  • Embedded regulator (LDO)

  • Up to 49 fast I/Os (most 5 V tolerant), up to 9 I/Os with independent supply down to 1.08 V

  • Analog peripherals

    • 1x 12-bit ADC with up to 2.5 MSPS

    • 1x 12-bit dual-channel DAC

    • 1x ultra-low-power comparator

    • 1x operational amplifier (7 MHz bandwidth)

  • 1x Digital temperature sensor

  • Up to 11 timers - 4x 16-bit - 1x 32-bit - 2x 16-bit low-power 16-bit timers (available in Stop mode) - 2x watchdogs - 1x SysTick timer - RTC with HW calendar, alarms and calibration

  • Up to 16x communication interfaces

    • Up to 2x I2Cs FM + interfaces (SMBus/PMBus®)

    • Up to 2x I3Cs shared with I2C

    • Up to 3x USARTs (ISO7816 interface, LIN, IrDA, modem control)

    • 1x LPUART

    • Up to 3x SPIs including three muxed with full-duplex I2S

    • Up to 3x additional SPI from 3x USART when configured in synchronous mode

    • 1x FDCAN

    • 1x USB 2.0 full-speed host and device

  • Two DMA controllers to offload the CPU

  • Security

    • HASH (SHA-1, SHA-2), HMAC

    • True random generator

    • 96-bit unique ID

    • Active tamper

  • Development support: serial wire debug (SWD) and JTAG interfaces

More information about STM32H533RE can be found here:

Supported Features

The nucleo_h503rb board supports the hardware features listed below.

on-chip / on-board
Feature integrated in the SoC / present on the board.
2 / 2
Number of instances that are enabled / disabled.
Click on the label to see the first instance of this feature in the board/SoC DTS files.
vnd,foo
Compatible string for the Devicetree binding matching the feature.
Click on the link to view the binding documentation.
nucleo_h503rb
/
stm32h503xx

Type

Location

Description

Compatible

CPU

on-chip

ARM Cortex-M33 CPU1

arm,cortex-m33

ADC

on-chip

STM32 ADC1

st,stm32-adc

CAN

on-chip

STM32 FDCAN CAN FD controller1

st,stm32-fdcan

Clock control

on-chip

STM32U5 RCC (Reset and Clock controller)1

st,stm32u5-rcc

on-chip

STM32 HSE Clock1

st,stm32-hse-clock

on-chip

STM32 HSI Clock1

st,stm32h7-hsi-clock

on-chip

Generic fixed-rate clock provider2 1

fixed-clock

on-chip

STM32 LSE Clock1

st,stm32-lse-clock

on-chip

STM32U5 PLL1 1

st,stm32u5-pll-clock

on-chip

STM32 Microcontroller Clock Output (MCO)2

st,stm32-clock-mco

Counter

on-chip

STM32 counters4

st,stm32-counter

DAC

on-chip

STM32 family DAC1

st,stm32-dac

DMA

on-chip

STM32U5 DMA controller2

st,stm32u5-dma

Ethernet

on-chip

STM32H7 Ethernet1

st,stm32h7-ethernet

Flash controller

on-chip

STM32 Family flash controller1

st,stm32-flash-controller

GPIO & Headers

on-chip

STM32 GPIO Controller5

st,stm32-gpio

on-board

GPIO pins exposed on Arduino Uno (R3) headers1

arduino-header-r3

on-board

GPIO pins exposed on ST Morpho connector1

st-morpho-header

I2C

on-chip

STM32 I2C V2 controller1 1

st,stm32-i2c-v2

I2S

on-chip

STM32H7 I2S controller3

st,stm32h7-i2s

I3C

on-chip

STM32H5 I3C controller2

st,stm32-i3c

Input

on-board

Group of GPIO-bound input keys1

gpio-keys

Interrupt controller

on-chip

ARMv8-M NVIC (Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller)1

arm,v8m-nvic

on-chip

STM32G0 External Interrupt Controller1

st,stm32g0-exti

LED

on-board

Group of GPIO-controlled LEDs1

gpio-leds

MDIO

on-chip

STM32 MDIO Controller1

st,stm32-mdio

MMU / MPU

on-chip

ARMv8-M MPU (Memory Protection Unit)1

arm,armv8m-mpu

MTD

on-chip

STM32 flash memory1

st,stm32-nv-flash

PHY

on-chip

This binding is to be used by all the usb transceivers which are built-in with USB IP1

usb-nop-xceiv

Pin control

on-chip

STM32 Pin controller1

st,stm32-pinctrl

PWM

on-chip

STM32 PWM5

st,stm32-pwm

Reset controller

on-chip

STM32 Reset and Clock Control (RCC) Controller1

st,stm32-rcc-rctl

RNG

on-chip

STM32 Random Number Generator1

st,stm32-rng

RTC

on-chip

STM32 RTC1

st,stm32-rtc

Sensors

on-chip

STM32 Digital Temperature Sensor1

st,stm32-digi-temp

on-chip

STM32 family TEMP node for production calibrated sensors with two calibration temperatures1

st,stm32-temp-cal

on-chip

STM32 VREF+1

st,stm32-vref

on-chip

STM32 VBAT1

st,stm32-vbat

Serial controller

on-chip

STM32 USART2 1

st,stm32-usart

on-chip

STM32 LPUART1

st,stm32-lpuart

SMbus

on-chip

STM32 SMBus controller2

st,stm32-smbus

SPI

on-chip

STM32H7 SPI controller3

st,stm32h7-spi

Timer

on-chip

ARMv8-M System Tick1

arm,armv8m-systick

on-chip

STM32 low-power timer (LPTIM)2

st,stm32-lptim

on-chip

STM32 timers5

st,stm32-timers

USB

on-chip

STM32 USB controller1

st,stm32-usb

Watchdog

on-chip

STM32 watchdog1

st,stm32-watchdog

on-chip

STM32 system window watchdog1

st,stm32-window-watchdog

Connections and IOs

Nucleo-H503RB board has 8 GPIO controllers. These controllers are responsible for pin muxing, input/output, pull-up, etc.

For more details please refer to STM32H5 Nucleo-64 board User Manual.

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

  • USART1 TX/RX : PB14/PB15 (Arduino USART1)

  • SPI1 SCK/MISO/MOSI/NSS: PA5/PA6/PA7/PC9

  • USART3 TX/RX : PA3/PA4 (VCP)

  • USER_PB : PC13

  • User LED (green): PA5

System Clock

Nucleo H533RE System Clock could be driven by internal or external oscillator, as well as main PLL clock. By default System clock is driven by PLL clock at 240 MHz, driven by an 24 MHz high-speed external clock.

Serial Port

Nucleo H533RE board has up to 3 U(S)ARTs. The Zephyr console output is assigned to USART3. Default settings are 115200 8N1.

Backup SRAM

In order to test backup SRAM, you may want to disconnect VBAT from VDD_MCU. You can do it by removing SB38 jumper on the back side of the board. VBAT can be provided via the left ST Morpho connector’s pin 33.

Programming and Debugging

Nucleo-H503RB board includes an ST-LINK/V3EC embedded debug tool interface. This probe allows to flash the board using various tools.

Applications for the nucleo_h503rb board can be built and flashed in the usual way (see Building an Application and Run an Application for more details).

OpenOCD Support

For now, openocd support for stm32h5 is not available on upstream OpenOCD. You can check OpenOCD official Github mirror. In order to use it though, you should clone from the customized STMicroelectronics OpenOCD Github and compile it following usual README guidelines. Once it is done, you can set the OPENOCD and OPENOCD_DEFAULT_PATH variables in boards/st/nucleo_h563zi/board.cmake to point the build to the paths of the OpenOCD binary and its scripts, before including the common openocd.board.cmake file:

set(OPENOCD "<path_to_openocd_repo>/src/openocd" CACHE FILEPATH "" FORCE)
set(OPENOCD_DEFAULT_PATH <path_to_opneocd_repo>/tcl)
include(${ZEPHYR_BASE}/boards/common/openocd.board.cmake)

Flashing

The board is configured to be flashed using west STM32CubeProgrammer runner, so its installation is required.

Alternatively, OpencOCD or pyOCD can also be used to flash the board using the --runner (or -r) option:

$ west flash --runner openocd
$ west flash --runner pyocd

For pyOCD, additional target information needs to be installed which can be done by executing the following commands:

$ pyocd pack --update
$ pyocd pack --install stm32h5

Flashing an application to Nucleo-H503RB

Connect the Nucleo-H503RB to your host computer using the USB port. Then build and flash an application. Here is an example for the Hello World application.

Run a serial host program to connect with your Nucleo board:

$ minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0

Then build and flash the application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b nucleo_h503rb samples/hello_world
west flash

You should see the following message on the console:

Hello World! nucleo_h503rb/stm32h503xx

Debugging

You can debug an application in the usual way. Here is an example for the Blinky application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b nucleo_h503rb samples/basic/blinky
west debug