STM32F0 Discovery

Overview

The STM32F0 Discovery development board uses an STM32F051R8T6 MCU and integrates the ST-LINK/V2-1 debugger and programmer. It also comes with a comprehensive STM32 software HAL library and various packaged software examples.

More information about the board can be found at the STM32F0DISCOVERY website [1].

Hardware

The STM32 Discovery board features:

  • STM32F051R8T6 microcontroller featuring 64 KB Flash memory, 8 KB RAM in an LQFP64 package

  • On-board ST-LINK/V2 with selection mode switch to use the kit as a standalone ST-LINK/V2 (with SWD connector for programming and debugging)

  • Board power supply: through USB bus or from an external 5 V supply voltage

  • External application power supply: 3 V and 5 V

  • Four LEDs:

    • LD1 (red) for 3.3 V power on

    • LD2 (red/green) for USB communication

    • LD3 (green) for PC9 output

    • LD4 (blue) for PC8 output

  • Two push buttons (user and reset)

  • Extension header for all LQFP64 I/Os for quick connection to prototyping board and easy probing

  • An additional board is provided which can be connected to the extension connector for even easier prototyping and probing.

  • Comprehensive free software including a variety of examples, part of STM32CubeF0 package or STSW-STM32049 for legacy Standard Libraries usage

More information about STM32F051R8 can be found in the STM32F0x8 reference manual [2].

Supported Features

The stm32f0_disco 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.
stm32f0_disco
/
stm32f051x8

Type

Location

Description

Compatible

CPU

on-chip

ARM Cortex-M0 CPU1

arm,cortex-m0

ADC

on-chip

STM32 ADC1

st,stm32-adc

Clock control

on-chip

STM32F0/G0 RCC (Reset and Clock controller)1

st,stm32f0-rcc

on-chip

STM32 HSE Clock1

st,stm32-hse-clock

on-chip

Generic fixed-rate clock provider1 2

fixed-clock

on-chip

STM32 LSE Clock1

st,stm32-lse-clock

on-chip

STM32F0/F3 Main PLL1

st,stm32f0-pll-clock

Counter

on-chip

STM32 counters5

st,stm32-counter

DAC

on-chip

STM32 family DAC1

st,stm32-dac

DMA

on-chip

STM32 DMA controller (V2bis) for the stm32F0, stm32F1 and stm32L1 soc families1

st,stm32-dma-v2bis

Flash controller

on-chip

STM32 Family flash controller1

st,stm32-flash-controller

GPIO & Headers

on-chip

STM32 GPIO Controller3 2

st,stm32-gpio

I2C

on-chip

STM32 I2C V2 controller2

st,stm32-i2c-v2

Input

on-board

Group of GPIO-bound input keys1

gpio-keys

Interrupt controller

on-chip

ARMv6-M NVIC (Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller) controller1

arm,v6m-nvic

on-chip

STM32 External Interrupt Controller1

st,stm32-exti

LED

on-board

Group of GPIO-controlled LEDs1

gpio-leds

Memory controller

on-chip

STM32 Battery Backed RAM1

st,stm32-bbram

MTD

on-chip

STM32 flash memory1

st,stm32-nv-flash

on-board

Fixed partitions of a flash (or other non-volatile storage) memory1

fixed-partitions

Pin control

on-chip

STM32 Pin controller1

st,stm32-pinctrl

PWM

on-chip

STM32 PWM7

st,stm32-pwm

Reset controller

on-chip

STM32 Reset and Clock Control (RCC) Controller1

st,stm32-rcc-rctl

RTC

on-chip

STM32 RTC1

st,stm32-rtc

Sensors

on-chip

STM32 VREF+1

st,stm32-vref

on-chip

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

st,stm32-temp-cal

on-chip

STM32 VBAT1

st,stm32-vbat

Serial controller

on-chip

STM32 USART2

st,stm32-usart

SMbus

on-chip

STM32 SMBus controller2

st,stm32-smbus

SPI

on-chip

STM32 SPI controller with embedded Rx and Tx FIFOs2

st,stm32-spi-fifo

SRAM

on-chip

Generic on-chip SRAM description1

mmio-sram

Timer

on-chip

ARMv6-M System Tick1

arm,armv6m-systick

on-chip

STM32 timers8

st,stm32-timers

Watchdog

on-chip

STM32 watchdog1

st,stm32-watchdog

on-chip

STM32 system window watchdog1

st,stm32-window-watchdog

Connections and IOs

Each of the GPIO pins can be configured by software as output (push-pull or open-drain), as input (with or without pull-up or pull-down), or as peripheral alternate function. Most of the GPIO pins are shared with digital or analog alternate functions. All GPIOs are high current capable except for analog inputs.

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

  • UART_1_TX : PA9

  • UART_1_RX : PA10

  • UART_2_TX : PA2

  • UART_2_RX : PA3

For more details please refer to STM32F0DISCOVERY board User Manual [3].

Programming and Debugging

STM32F0DISCOVERY board includes an ST-LINK/V2-1 embedded debug tool interface.

Applications for the stm32f0_disco board configuration can be built and flashed in the usual way (see Building an Application and Run an Application for more details).

Flashing

The board is configured to be flashed using west STM32CubeProgrammer [4] runner, so its installation is required.

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

$ west flash --runner openocd
$ west flash --runner jlink

Flashing an application to Nucleo F030R8

Here is an example for the Blinky application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b stm32f0_disco samples/basic/blinky
west flash

You will see the LED blinking every second.

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 stm32f0_disco samples/basic/blinky
west debug

References