GD32F450Z-EVAL

Board Overview

GD32F450Z-EVAL

Name:

gd32f450z_eval

Vendor:

GigaDevice Semiconductor

Architecture:

arm

SoC:

gd32f450

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Overview

The GD32F450Z-EVAL board is a hardware platform that enables prototyping on GD32F450ZK Cortex-M4F Stretch Performance MCU.

The GD32F450ZK features a single-core ARM Cortex-M4F MCU which can run up to 200 MHz with flash accesses zero wait states, 3072kiB of Flash, 256kiB of SRAM and 114 GPIOs.

Hardware

• GD32F450ZKT6 MCU

• AT24C02C 2Kb EEPROM

• GD25Q16B 16Mbit SPI and QSPI NOR Flash

• Micron MT48LC16M16A2P-6AIT 256Mbit SDRAM

• 3 x User LEDs

• 3 x User Push buttons

• 1 x USART (RS-232 at J1 connector)

• 1 x POT connected to an ADC input

• Headphone interface

• Micro SD Card Interface

• USB FS connector

• USB HS connector

• 1 x CAN

• Ethernet Interface

• 3.5” RGB-LCD (320x480)

• GD-Link on board programmer

• J-Link/JTAG connector

For more information about the GD32F450 SoC and GD32F450Z-EVAL board:

• GigaDevice Cortex-M4F Stretch Performance SoC Website

• GD32F450xx Datasheet

• GD32F4xx User Manual

• GD32F450Z-EVAL User Manual

Supported Features

The gd32f450z_eval 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.

gd32f450z_eval

/

gd32f450

gd32f450z_eval/gd32f450 target

Type	Location	Description	Compatible
CPU	on-chip	ARM Cortex-M4F CPU1	arm,cortex-m4f
ADC	on-chip	GigaDevice GD32 ADC3	gd,gd32-adc
Clock control	on-chip	Gigadevice Reset and Clock Unit (RCU) if a multi-function peripheral in charge of reset control (RCTL) and clock control (CCTL) for all SoC peripherals1	gd,gd32-cctl
Counter	on-chip	GigaDevice GD32 timer1 13	gd,gd32-timer
DAC	on-chip	GigaDevice GD32 series DAC module1	gd,gd32-dac
DMA	on-chip	GD32 DMA controller with FIFO2	gd,gd32-dma-v1
Flash controller	on-chip	There are three types GD32 FMC1	gd,gd32-flash-controller
GPIO & Headers	on-chip	GD32 GPIO5 4	gd,gd32-gpio
I2C	on-chip	GigiDevice GD32 I2C1 2	gd,gd32-i2c
Input	on-board	Group of GPIO-bound input keys1	gpio-keys
Interrupt controller	on-chip	ARMv7-M NVIC (Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller)1	arm,v7m-nvic
	on-chip	GigaDevice External Interrupt Controller1	gd,gd32-exti
LED	on-board	Group of GPIO-controlled LEDs1	gpio-leds
	on-board	Group of PWM-controlled LEDs1	pwm-leds
Multi-Function Device	on-chip	Gigadevice Reset and Clock Unit (RCU) if a multi-function peripheral in charge of reset control (RCTL) and clock control (CCTL) for all SoC peripherals1	gd,gd32-rcu
Miscellaneous	on-chip	GigaDevice GD32 System Configuration Registers1	gd,gd32-syscfg
MMU / MPU	on-chip	ARMv7-M Memory Protection Unit (MPU)1	arm,armv7m-mpu
MTD	on-chip	Flash memory binding of GD32 FMC v31	gd,gd32-nv-flash-v3
	on-board	I2C EEPROMs compatible with Atmel’s AT24 family1	atmel,at24
	on-board	Properties supporting Zephyr spi-nor flash driver (over the Zephyr SPI API) control of serial flash memories using the standard M25P80-based command set1	jedec,spi-nor
Pin control	on-chip	The GD32 pin controller (AF model) is a singleton node responsible for controlling pin function selection and pin properties1	gd,gd32-pinctrl-af
PWM	on-chip	GigaDevice GD32 PWM1 11	gd,gd32-pwm
Reset controller	on-chip	Gigadevice Reset and Clock Unit (RCU) if a multi-function peripheral in charge of reset control (RCTL) and clock control (CCTL) for all SoC peripherals1	gd,gd32-rctl
Serial controller	on-chip	GigaDevice USART1 7	gd,gd32-usart
SPI	on-chip	GigaDevice GD32 SPI1 5	gd,gd32-spi
SRAM	on-chip	Generic on-chip SRAM description1	mmio-sram
Timer	on-chip	ARMv7-M System Tick1	arm,armv7m-systick
Watchdog	on-chip	GD32 free watchdog timer1	gd,gd32-fwdgt
	on-chip	GD32 window watchdog timer1	gd,gd32-wwdgt

Serial Port

The GD32F450Z-EVAL board has one serial communication port. The default port is USART0 with TX connected at PA9 and RX at PA10.

Programming and Debugging

Before programming your board make sure to configure boot and serial jumpers as follows:

• JP3/JP4: Select 2-3 for both (boot from user memory)

• JP13: Select 1-2 position (labeled as USART0)

Using GD-Link

The GD32F450Z-EVAL includes an onboard programmer/debugger (GD-Link) which allows flash programming and debugging over USB. There is also a JTAG header (J1) which can be used with tools like Segger J-Link.

1. Build the Zephyr kernel and the Hello World sample application:

   west build -b gd32f450z_eval samples/hello_world
   

2. 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

3. To flash an image:

   west build -b gd32f450z_eval samples/hello_world
   west flash
   

   You should see “Hello World! gd32f450z_eval” in your terminal.

4. To debug an image:

   west build -b gd32f450z_eval samples/hello_world
   west debug