STM32F4 Discovery

Overview

The STM32F4DISCOVERY Discovery kit features an ARM Cortex-M4 based STM32F407VG MCU with a wide range of connectivity support and configurations Here are some highlights of the STM32F4DISCOVERY board:

  • STM32 microcontroller in LQFP100 package

  • Extension header for all LQFP100 I/Os for quick connection to prototyping board and easy probing

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

  • Flexible board power supply:

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

    • Power management access point

  • Eight LEDs:

    • USB communication (LD1)

    • 3.3 V power on (LD2)

    • Four user LEDs: orange (LD3), green (LD4), red (LD5), and blue (LD6)

    • 2 USB OTG LEDs for VBUS (LD7) and over-current (LD8)

  • Two push-buttons: USER and RESET

  • USB OTG FS with micro-AB connector

  • LIS302DL or LIS3DSH ST MEMS 3-axis accelerometer

  • MP45DT02 ST-MEMS audio sensor omni-directional digital microphone

  • CS43L22 audio DAC with integrated class D speaker driver

More information about the board can be found at the STM32F4DISCOVERY website.

Hardware

STM32F4DISCOVERY Discovery kit provides the following hardware components:

  • STM32F407VGT6 in LQFP100 package

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

  • 168 MHz max CPU frequency

  • VDD from 1.8 V to 3.6 V

  • 1 MB Flash

  • 192+4 KB SRAM including 64-Kbyte of core coupled memory

  • GPIO with external interrupt capability

  • 3x12-bit ADC with 24 channels

  • 2x12-bit D/A converters

  • RTC

  • Advanced-control Timer

  • General Purpose Timers (17)

  • Watchdog Timers (2)

  • USART/UART (6)

  • I2C (3)

  • SPI (3)

  • SDIO

  • 2xCAN

  • USB 2.0 OTG FS with on-chip PHY

  • USB 2.0 OTG HS/FS with dedicated DMA, on-chip full-speed PHY and ULPI

  • 10/100 Ethernet MAC with dedicated DMA

  • 8- to 14-bit parallel camera

  • CRC calculation unit

  • True random number generator

  • DMA Controller

More information about STM32F407VG can be found here:

Supported Features

The stm32f4_disco 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.

stm32f4_disco/stm32f407xx target

Type

Location

Description

Compatible

CPU

on-chip

ARM Cortex-M4F CPU1

arm,cortex-m4f

ADC

on-chip

STM32F4 ADC1

st,stm32f4-adc

on-chip

STM32 ADC2

st,stm32-adc

Audio

on-board

Cirrus CS43L22 audio DAC1

cirrus,cs43l22

CAN

on-chip

STM32 CAN controller1 1

st,stm32-bxcan

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

STM32F4 PLL I2S1

st,stm32f4-plli2s-clock

on-chip

STM32 Microcontroller Clock Output (MCO)2

st,stm32-clock-mco

Counter

on-chip

STM32 counters12

st,stm32-counter

DAC

on-chip

STM32 family DAC1

st,stm32-dac

DMA

on-chip

STM32 DMA controller (V1)1 1

st,stm32-dma-v1

Ethernet

on-chip

ST STM32 Ethernet1

st,stm32-ethernet

Flash controller

on-chip

STM32 Family flash controller1

st,stm32-flash-controller

GPIO & Headers

on-chip

STM32 GPIO Controller9

st,stm32-gpio

I2C

on-chip

STM32 I2C V1 controller1 2

st,stm32-i2c-v1

I2S

on-chip

STM32 I2S controller1 1

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

on-board

Group of PWM-controlled LEDs1

pwm-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 IP2

usb-nop-xceiv

Pin control

on-chip

STM32 Pin controller1

st,stm32-pinctrl

PWM

on-chip

STM32 PWM2 10

st,stm32-pwm

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

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 USART1 3

st,stm32-usart

on-chip

STM32 UART2

st,stm32-uart

SMbus

on-chip

STM32 SMBus controller3

st,stm32-smbus

SPI

on-chip

STM32 SPI controller4

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 timers2 12

st,stm32-timers

USB

on-chip

STM32 OTGFS controller1

st,stm32-otgfs

on-chip

STM32 OTGHS controller1

st,stm32-otghs

Watchdog

on-chip

STM32 watchdog1

st,stm32-watchdog

on-chip

STM32 system window watchdog1

st,stm32-window-watchdog

Note

CAN feature requires CAN transceiver, such as SK Pang CAN breakout board. Zephyr default configuration uses CAN_2 exclusively, as simultaneous use of CAN_1 and CAN_2 is not yet supported.

Pin Mapping

STM32F4DISCOVERY Discovery kit has 8 GPIO controllers. These controllers are responsible for pin muxing, input/output, pull-up, etc.

For more details please refer to STM32F4DISCOVERY board User Manual.

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

  • UART_2_TX : PA2

  • UART_2_RX : PA3

  • USER_PB : PA0

  • LD3 : PD13

  • LD4 : PD12

  • LD5 : PD14

  • LD6 : PD15

  • USB DM : PA11

  • USB DP : PA12

  • CAN2_RX : PB5

  • CAN2_TX : PB13

  • I2C1_SDA : PB9

  • I2C1_SCL : PB6

  • I2S3_MCK : PC7

  • I2S3_CK : PC10

  • I2S3_SD : PC12

  • I2S3_WS : PA4

System Clock

STM32F4DISCOVERY 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 168MHz, driven by 8MHz high speed external clock.

Serial Port

STM32F4DISCOVERY Discovery kit has up to 6 UARTs. The Zephyr console output is assigned to UART2. Default settings are 115200 8N1. Please note that ST-Link Virtual Com Port is not wired to chip serial port. In order to enable console output you should use a serial cable and connect it to UART2 pins (PA2/PA3).

Programming and Debugging

STM32F4DISCOVERY Discovery kit includes an ST-LINK/V2 embedded debug tool interface.

Applications for the stm32f4_disco 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 STM32F4DISCOVERY

Here is an example for the Blinky application.

Run a serial host program to connect with your board:

$ minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0

Build and flash the application:

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b stm32f4_disco samples/basic/blinky
west flash

You should see user led “LD4” blinking.

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 stm32f4_disco samples/hello_world
west debug