emSBC-NEON-CM7

Overview

The emSBC-Neon-CM7 enables a wide diversity of applications taking benefit from high-speed connectivity, multimedia and sensor interface features. Important board features include:

  • STM32F769NIH6 microcontroller featuring 2 Mbytes of internal Flash memory and 512 Kbytes of internal SRAM

  • 16 MByte Quad-SPI Flash memory

  • 128 MBit SDRAM

  • Connector for microSD card

  • USB 2.0 Host

  • USB 2.0 Device with Micro-AB connector

  • 10/100 Ethernet interface compliant with IEEE-802.3-2002

  • 18 bpp RGB-LCD display interface

  • SAI audio interface

  • GPIOs

  • JTAG connector for debugging

  • Two push-buttons (wakeup and reset)

  • Arduino Uno V3 connectors

  • Power supply output for external applications: 3.3 V or 5 V

  • 7..24 V DC power supply input

More information about the board can be found at the emSBC-NEON-CM7 website.

Hardware

The emSBC-NEON-CM7 provides the following hardware components:

  • STM32F769NIH6 in BGA216 package

  • ARM® 32-bit Cortex®-M7 CPU with FPU

  • 216 MHz max CPU frequency

  • 2 MB Flash

  • 512 + 16 + 4 KB SRAM

  • Chrom-ART Accelerator(DMA2D), graphical hardware accelerator enabling enhanced graphical user interface

  • Hardware JPEG codec

  • LCD-TFT controller supporting up to XGA resolution

  • MIPI® DSI host controller supporting up to 720p 30 Hz resolution

  • 3x12-bit ADC with 24 channels

  • 2x12-bit D/A converters

  • General Purpose Timers

  • Watchdog Timers

  • True random number generator

  • CRC calculation unit

  • RTC: sub-second accuracy, hardware calendar

  • 96-bit unique ID

  • SDIO socket

  • 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet

  • USB 2.0 high-speed Host

  • USB 2.0 high-speed Device

  • CAN

  • 2x UART

  • 18 bpp RGB LCD interface

  • SAI

  • 2x SPI

  • I2C

  • 6x GPIO

More information about STM32F769NIH6 can be found here:

Supported Features

The emsbc_neon_cm7 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.

emsbc_neon_cm7/stm32f769xx target

On-target memory for this board target: 384 KiB of RAM, 2 MiB of Flash.

Type

Location

Description

Compatible

CPU

on-chip

ARM Cortex-M7 CPU1

arm,cortex-m7

ADC

on-chip

STM32F4 ADC3

st,stm32f4-adc

Audio

on-chip

STMicroelectronics DFSDM block1

st,stm32-dfsdm

on-chip

STMicroelectronics DFSDM DMIC4

st,stm32-dfsdm-dmic

CAN

on-chip

STM32 CAN controller1

st,stm32-bxcan

Clock control

on-chip

STM32F4 RCC (Reset and Clock controller)1

st,stm32f4-rcc

on-chip

STM32 HSE Clock1

st,stm32-hse-clock

on-chip

Generic fixed-rate clock provider2

fixed-clock

on-chip

STM32 LSE Clock1

st,stm32-lse-clock

on-chip

PLL node binding for STM32F2, STM32F4 and STM32F7 device12

st,stm32fx-pll-clock

on-chip

STM32 Clock multiplexer1

st,stm32-clock-mux

on-chip

STM32 Microcontroller Clock Output (MCO)11

st,stm32-clock-mco

Counter

on-chip

STM32 counters14

st,stm32-counter

CRC

on-chip

STM32 CRC calculation unit1

st,stm32-crc

DAC

on-chip

STM32 family DAC1

st,stm32-dac

Display

on-chip

STM32 LCD-TFT display controller1

st,stm32-ltdc

DMA

on-chip

STM32 DMA controller (V1)2

st,stm32-dma-v1

Ethernet

on-chip

ST STM32 Ethernet MAC1

st,stm32-ethernet

on-chip

Synopsys DesignWare MAC MDIO controller1

snps,dwmac-mdio

on-board

Generic MII PHY1

ethernet-phy

on-chip

Synopsys DesignWare MAC PTP (Precision Time Protocol) Clock1

snps,dwmac-ptp-clock

Flash controller

on-chip

STM32 Family flash controller1

st,stm32-flash-controller

on-board

STM32 QSPI Flash controller supporting the JEDEC CFI interface1

st,stm32-qspi-nor

GPIO & Headers

on-chip

STM32 GPIO Controller11

st,stm32-gpio

I2C

on-chip

STM32 I2C V2 controller13

st,stm32-i2c-v2

I2S

on-chip

STM32 SAI Block controller1

st,stm32-sai

Interrupt controller

on-chip

ARMv7-M NVIC (Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller)1

arm,v7m-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 Flexible Memory Controller (FMC)1

st,stm32-fmc

on-chip

STM32 Flexible Memory Controller (SDRAM controller)1

st,stm32-fmc-sdram

on-chip

STM32 Battery Backed RAM1

st,stm32-bbram

MIPI-DSI

on-chip

STM32 MIPI DSI host1

st,stm32-mipi-dsi

MMU / MPU

on-chip

ARMv7-M Memory Protection Unit (MPU)1

arm,armv7m-mpu

MTD

on-chip

STM32 flash memory1

st,stm32-nv-flash

on-board

I2C EEPROMs compatible with Atmel’s AT24 family1

atmel,at24

on-board

Flash node1

soc-nv-flash

NVMEM

on-chip

Fixed layout for Non-Volatile memory2

fixed-layout

OTP memory

on-chip

STM32 embedded NVM OTP11

st,stm32-nvm-otp

PHY

on-chip

This binding is to be used by all the usb transceivers which are built-in with USB IP2

usb-nop-xceiv

Pin control

on-chip

STM32 Pin controller1

st,stm32-pinctrl

PWM

on-chip

STM32 PWM12

st,stm32-pwm

QSPI

on-chip

STM32 QSPI Controller1

st,stm32-qspi

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

SDHC

on-chip

STM32 SDMMC Host Controller11

st,stm32-sdmmc

Sensors

on-chip

STM32 quadrature decoder6

st,stm32-qdec

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 USART22

st,stm32-usart

on-chip

STM32 UART4

st,stm32-uart

SMbus

on-chip

STM32 SMBus controller4

st,stm32-smbus

SPI

on-chip

STM32 SPI controller with embedded Rx and Tx FIFOs24

st,stm32-spi-fifo

Timer

on-chip

ARMv7-M System Tick1

arm,armv7m-systick

on-chip

STM32 timers14

st,stm32-timers

USB

on-chip

STM32 OTGFS controller1

st,stm32-otgfs

on-chip

STM32 OTGHS controller1

st,stm32-otghs

Video

on-chip

STM32 JPEG HW Codec1

st,stm32-jpeg

Watchdog

on-chip

STM32 watchdog1

st,stm32-watchdog

on-chip

STM32 system window watchdog1

st,stm32-window-watchdog

Pin Mapping

emSBC-NEON-CM7 has 9 GPIO controllers. These controllers are responsible for pin muxing, input/output, pull-up, etc.

For more details please refer to emSBC-NEON-CM7 Hardware Manuals.

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

  • UART_2 TX/RX/RTS/CTS : PD5/PD6/PD4/PD3

  • UART_3 TX/RX : PB10/PB11 (Arduino Serial)

  • I2C1 SCL/SDA : PB8/PB7 (Arduino I2C)

  • SPI2 NSS/SCK/MISO/MOSI: PI0/PI1/PC2/PI3 (Arduino SPI)

  • SPI5 SCK/MISO/MOSI: PH6/PH7/PF9

  • QUADSPI CLK/NCS/IO0/IO1/IO2/IO3: PF10/PB6/PF8/PD12/PF7/PF6

  • ETH REFCLK/CRSDV/MDIO/MDC/RXD0/RXD1/TXEN/TXD0/TXD1: PA1/PA7/PA2/PC1/PC4/PC5/PG11/PB12/PB13

  • ETH PHY RESET: PC0

  • SDIO CD#/CMD/CK/D0/D1/D2/D3: PA10/PD2/PC12/PC8/PC9/PC10/PC11 (micro SDC)

  • CAN TX/RX: PB9/PI9

  • LD1: PI7

  • ADC1 IN9: PB1

  • ADC2 IN6: PA6

  • ADC3 IN3: PA3

  • DAC1 OUT1/OUT2: PA4/PA5

System Clock

The STM32F769I System Clock can be driven by an internal or external oscillator, as well as by the main PLL clock. By default, the System clock is driven by the PLL clock at 216MHz, driven by a 25MHz high speed external clock.

Serial Port

The Zephyr console output is assigned to UART2 which connected to the DEBUG console interface of the emSBC-NEON-CM7. Default communication settings are 115200 8N1.

Programming and Debugging

The emsbc_neon_cm7 board supports the runners and associated west commands listed below.

flash debug attach debugserver rtt reset
jlink
openocd ✅ (default) ✅ (default)
stlink_gdbserver
stm32cubeprogrammer

Applications for the emsbc_neon_cm7 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 OpenOCD runner

Alternatively, STM32CubeProgrammer or JLink can also be used to flash the board using the --runner (or -r) option:

$ west flash --runner stm32cubeprogrammer
$ west flash --runner jlink

If you want to use the STM32CubeProgrammer runner, so its installation is required.

Flashing an application to emSBC-NEON-CM7

First, connect the emSBC-NEON-CM7 to your host computer using an ST/Link-V2 to prepare it for flashing. Then build and flash your application.

Here is an example for the Hello World application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b emsbc_neon_cm7 samples/hello_world
west flash

Run a serial host program to connect with your board:

$ minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0

You should see the following message on the console:

Hello World! arm

Debugging

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

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b emsbc_neon_cm7 samples/hello_world
west debug