Nucleo F303RE

Overview

The Nucleo F303RE board features an ARM Cortex-M4 based STM32F303RE mixed-signal MCU with FPU and DSP instructions capable of running at 72 MHz. Here are some highlights of the Nucleo F303RE board:

  • STM32 microcontroller in LQFP64 package

  • LSE crystal: 32.768 kHz crystal oscillator

  • Two types of extension resources:

    • Arduino* Uno V3 connectors

    • ST morpho extension pin headers for full access to all STM32 I/Os

  • On-board ST-LINK/V2-1 debugger/programmer with SWD connector

  • Flexible board power supply:

    • 5 V from ST-LINK/V2-1 USB VBUS

    • External power sources: 3.3 V and 7 - 12 V on ST Zio or ST morpho connectors, 5 V on ST morpho connector

  • One user LED

  • Two push-buttons: USER and RESET

More information about the board can be found at the Nucleo F303RE website, and in the STM32 Nucleo-64 board User Manual.

Hardware

The Nucleo F303RE provides the following hardware components:

  • STM32F303RET6 in QFP64 package

  • ARM® 32-bit Cortex® -M4 CPU with FPU

  • 72 MHz max CPU frequency

  • VDD from 2.0 V to 3.6 V

  • 512 KB Flash

  • 64 + 16 KB SRAM

  • RTC

  • Advanced-control Timer

  • General Purpose Timers (4)

  • Basic Timer

  • Watchdog Timers (2)

  • PWM channels (18)

  • SPI/I2S (2)

  • I2C (3)

  • USART/UART (3/3)

  • USB 2.0 FS with on-chip PHY

  • CAN (2)

  • GPIO with external interrupt capability

  • DMA channels (12)

  • Capacitive sensing channels (18)

  • 12-bit ADC with 40 channels (4)

  • 12-bit D/A converter with two channels

  • Analog comparator (7)

  • Op amp (4)

  • Capacitive sensing 24 channels

More information about the STM32F303RE can be found here:

Supported Features

The nucleo_f303re 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_f303re/stm32f303xe target

Type

Location

Description

Compatible

CPU

on-chip

ARM Cortex-M4F CPU1

arm,cortex-m4f

ADC

on-chip

STM32 ADC2

st,stm32-adc

CAN

on-chip

STM32 CAN controller1

st,stm32-bxcan

Clock control

on-chip

STM32F3 RCC (Reset and Clock controller)1

st,stm32f3-rcc

on-chip

STM32 HSE Clock1

st,stm32-hse-clock

on-chip

Generic fixed-rate clock provider1 1

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 counters7

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 families2

st,stm32-dma-v2bis

Flash controller

on-chip

STM32 Family flash controller1

st,stm32-flash-controller

GPIO & Headers

on-chip

STM32 GPIO Controller6

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

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

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

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 PWM9

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 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 UART2

st,stm32-uart

SMbus

on-chip

STM32 SMBus controller2

st,stm32-smbus

SPI

on-chip

STM32 SPI controller with embedded Rx and Tx FIFOs1 2

st,stm32-spi-fifo

SRAM

on-chip

Generic on-chip SRAM description1

mmio-sram

Timer

on-chip

ARMv7-M System Tick1

arm,armv7m-systick

on-chip

STM32 timers11

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

The Nucleo F303RE Board has 5 GPIO controllers. These controllers are responsible for pin muxing, input/output, pull-up, etc.

Board connectors:

Nucleo F303RE connectors

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

The Nucleo F303RE board features an Arduino Uno V3 connector and a ST morpho connector. Board is configured as follows:

  • UART_2 TX/RX : PA2/PA3 (ST-Link Virtual Port Com)

  • USER_PB : PC13

  • LD2 : PA5

System Clock

The Nucleo F303RE 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 72 MHz. The input to the PLL is an 8 MHz external clock supplied by the processor of the on-board ST-LINK/V2-1 debugger/programmer.

Serial Port

The Nucleo F303RE board has 2 UARTs. The Zephyr console output is assigned to UART2. Default settings are 115200 8N1.

Programming and Debugging

The Nucleo F303RE board includes an ST-LINK/V2-1 embedded debug tool interface.

Flashing

The board is configured to be flashed using west STM32CubeProgrammer 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