GigaDevice GD32E507Z-EVAL
Overview
The GD32E507Z-EVAL board is a hardware platform that enables prototyping on GD32E507ZE Cortex-M33 High Performance MCU.
The GD32E507ZE features a single-core ARM Cortex-M33 MCU which can run up to 180 MHz with flash accesses zero wait states, 512kiB of Flash, 128kiB of SRAM and 112 GPIOs.
![gd32e507z_eval](../../../../_images/gd32e507z_eval.webp)
Hardware
GD32E507ZET6 MCU
AT24C02C 2Kb EEPROM
GD25Q16 16Mbit SPI and QSPI NOR Flash
GD9FU1G8F2A 1Gbit NAND Flash
Micron MT48LC16M16A2P-6AIT 256Mbit SDRAM
4 x User LEDs
1 x Joystick (L/R/U/D/C)
1 x USART (connected to USB VCOM at J1 connector)
1 x POT connected to an ADC input
Headphone interface
USB FS connector
1 x CAN (includes SN65HVD230 PHY)
Ethernet Interface
3.2” RGB-LCD (320x240)
GD-Link on board programmer
J-Link/JTAG connector
For more information about the GD32E507 SoC and GD32E507Z-EVAL board:
Supported Features
The board configuration supports the following hardware features:
Peripheral |
Kconfig option |
Devicetree compatible |
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EXTI |
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GPIO |
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NVIC |
N/A |
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PWM |
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SYSTICK |
N/A |
N/A |
USART |
Serial Port
The GD32E507Z-EVAL board has one serial communication port. The default port is USART0 with TX connected at PA9 and RX at PA10. USART0 is exposed as a virtual COM port via the J1 USB connector.
Programming and Debugging
Before programming your board make sure to configure boot jumpers as follows:
JP3/4: Select 2-3 for both (boot from user memory)
Using GD-Link or J-Link
The board comes with an embedded GD-Link programmer. It can be used with pyOCD provided you install the necessary CMSIS-Pack:
pyocd pack install gd32e507ze
J-Link can also be used to program the board using the JTAG interface exposed in the JP2 header.
Build the Zephyr kernel and the Hello World sample application:
west build -b gd32e507z_eval samples/hello_world
Run your favorite terminal program to listen for output. On Linux the terminal should be something like
/dev/ttyUSB0
. For example:minicom -D /dev/ttyUSB0 -o
The -o option tells minicom not to send the modem initialization string. Connection should be configured as follows:
Speed: 115200
Data: 8 bits
Parity: None
Stop bits: 1
To flash an image:
west build -b gd32e507z_eval samples/hello_world west flash
You should see “Hello World! gd32e507z_eval” in your terminal.
To debug an image:
west build -b gd32e507z_eval samples/hello_world west debug