Nucleo F411RE

Overview

The Nucleo F411RE board features an ARM Cortex-M4 based STM32F411RE MCU with a wide range of connectivity support and configurations. Here are some highlights of the Nucleo F411RE board:

  • STM32 microcontroller in QFP64 package

  • Two types of extension resources:

    • Arduino Uno V3 connectivity

    • 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:

    • USB VBUS or external source(3.3V, 5V, 7 - 12V)

    • Power management access point

  • Three LEDs: USB communication (LD1), user LED (LD2), power LED (LD3)

  • Two push-buttons: USER and RESET

More information about the board can be found at the Nucleo F411RE website.

Hardware

Nucleo F411RE provides the following hardware components:

  • STM32F411RET6 in LQFP64 package

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

  • 100 MHz max CPU frequency

  • VDD from 1.7 V to 3.6 V

  • 512 KB Flash

  • 128 KB SRAM

  • GPIO with external interrupt capability

  • 12-bit ADC with 16 channels, with FIFO and burst support

  • RTC

  • 8 General purpose timers

  • 2 watchdog timers (independent and window)

  • SysTick timer

  • USART/UART (3)

  • I2C (3)

  • SPI/I2S (5)

  • SDIO

  • USB 2.0 OTG FS

  • DMA Controller

  • CRC calculation unit

More information about STM32F411RE can be found here:

Supported Features

The nucleo_f411re 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_f411re/stm32f411xe target

Type

Location

Description

Compatible

CPU

on-chip

ARM Cortex-M4F CPU1

arm,cortex-m4f

ADC

on-chip

STM32F4 ADC1

st,stm32f4-adc

Clock control

on-chip

STM32 RCC (Reset and Clock controller)1

st,stm32-rcc

on-chip

STM32 HSE Clock1

st,stm32-hse-clock

on-chip

Generic fixed-rate clock provider1 2

fixed-clock

on-chip

STM32F4 Main PLL1

st,stm32f4-pll-clock

on-chip

STM32F411 PLL I2S1

st,stm32f411-plli2s-clock

on-chip

STM32 Microcontroller Clock Output (MCO)2

st,stm32-clock-mco

Counter

on-chip

STM32 counters7

st,stm32-counter

DMA

on-chip

STM32 DMA controller (V1)2

st,stm32-dma-v1

Flash controller

on-chip

STM32 Family flash controller1

st,stm32-flash-controller

GPIO & Headers

on-chip

STM32 GPIO Controller8

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 V1 controller1 2

st,stm32-i2c-v1

I2S

on-chip

STM32 I2S controller5

st,stm32-i2s

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

MMC

on-chip

STM32 SDMMC Disk Access1

st,stm32-sdmmc

MTD

on-chip

STM32F4 flash memory1

st,stm32f4-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 PWM8

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 quadrature decoder5

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 USART2 1

st,stm32-usart

SMbus

on-chip

STM32 SMBus controller3

st,stm32-smbus

SPI

on-chip

STM32 SPI controller1 4

st,stm32-spi

SRAM

on-chip

Generic on-chip SRAM description1

mmio-sram

Timer

on-chip

ARMv7-M System Tick1

arm,armv7m-systick

on-chip

STM32 timers8

st,stm32-timers

USB

on-chip

STM32 OTGFS controller1

st,stm32-otgfs

Watchdog

on-chip

STM32 watchdog1

st,stm32-watchdog

on-chip

STM32 system window watchdog1

st,stm32-window-watchdog

Connections and IOs

Nucleo F411RE Board has 8 GPIO controllers. These controllers are responsible for pin muxing, input/output, pull-up, etc.

Available pins:

Nucleo F411RE Arduino connectors Nucleo F411RE Morpho connectors

For more details please refer to STM32 Nucleo-64 board User Manual.

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

  • UART_1 TX/RX : PB6/PB7

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

  • I2C1 SCL/SDA : PB8/PB9 (Arduino I2C)

  • I2C2 SCL/SDA : PB10/PB3

  • I2C1 SCL/SDA : PA8/B4

  • SPI1 CS/SCK/MISO/MOSI : PA4/PA5/PA6/PA7 (Arduino SPI)

  • I2S1 SCK/SD : PA5/PA7 (Arduino I2S)

  • USER_PB : PC13

  • LD2 : PA5

Note

Please note that SPI1 and I2S1 are connected to the same mcu pins, as the h/w controller is the same one.

System Clock

Nucleo F411RE System Clock could be driven by internal or external oscillator, as well as main PLL clock. By default System clock is driven by PLL clock at 84MHz, driven by 8MHz high speed external clock.

Serial Port

Nucleo F411RE board has 3 UARTs. The Zephyr console output is assigned to UART2. Default settings are 115200 8N1.

Programming and Debugging

Nucleo F411RE board includes an ST-LINK/V2-1 embedded debug tool interface.

Applications for the nucleo_f411re 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 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 F411RE

Here is an example for the Hello World application.

Run a serial host program to connect with your Nucleo board.

$ minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0

Build and flash the application:

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b nucleo_f411re samples/hello_world
west flash

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 nucleo_f411re samples/hello_world
west debug