STM32F746G Discovery

Overview

The discovery kit enables a wide diversity of applications taking benefit from audio, multi-sensor support, graphics, security, security, video, and high-speed connectivity features. Important board features include:

  • STM32F746NGH6 microcontroller featuring 1 Mbytes of Flash memory and 340 Kbytes of RAM, in BGA216 package

  • On-board ST-LINK/V2-1 supporting USB re-enumeration capability

  • Five power supply options:

    • ST LINK/V2-1

    • USB FS connector

    • USB HS connector

    • VIN from Arduino connector

    • External 5 V from connector

  • Two pushbuttons (user and reset)

  • USB functions: virtual COM port, mass storage, debug port

  • 4.3-inch 480x272 color LCD-TFT with capacitive touch screen

  • SAI audio codec

  • Audio line in and line out jack

  • Stereo speaker outputs

  • Two ST MEMS microphones

  • SPDIF RCA input connector

  • 128-Mbit Quad-SPI Flash memory

  • 128-Mbit SDRAM (64 Mbits accessible)

  • Connector for microSD card

  • USB OTG HS with Micro-AB connectors

  • USB OTG FS with Micro-AB connectors

  • Ethernet connector compliant with IEEE-802.3-2002

More information about the board can be found at the 32F746G-DISCO website.

Hardware

The STM32F746G Discovery kit provides the following hardware components:

  • STM32F746NGH6 in BGA216 package

  • ARM® 32-bit Cortex® -M7 CPU with FPU

  • 216 MHz max CPU frequency

  • VDD from 1.8 V to 3.6 V

  • 2 MB Flash

  • 384+4 KB SRAM including 64-Kbyte of core coupled memory

  • GPIO with external interrupt capability

  • LCD parallel interface, 8080/6800 modes

  • LCD TFT controller supporting up to XGA resolution

  • MIPI® DSI host controller supporting up to 720p 30Hz resolution

  • 3x12-bit ADC with 24 channels

  • 2x12-bit D/A converters

  • RTC

  • Advanced-control Timer

  • General Purpose Timers (17)

  • Watchdog Timers (2)

  • USART/UART (8)

  • I2C (3)

  • SPI (6)

  • 1xSAI (serial audio interface)

  • 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 STM32F746NGH6 can be found here:

Supported Features

The stm32f746g_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.

stm32f746g_disco/stm32f746xx target

Type

Location

Description

Compatible

CPU

on-chip

ARM Cortex-M7 CPU1

arm,cortex-m7

ADC

on-chip

STM32F4 ADC3

st,stm32f4-adc

CAN

on-chip

STM32 CAN controller2

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 1

fixed-clock

on-chip

STM32 LSE Clock1

st,stm32-lse-clock

on-chip

STM32F7 Main PLL1

st,stm32f7-pll-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

Display

on-chip

STM32 LCD-TFT display controller1

st,stm32-ltdc

DMA

on-chip

STM32 DMA controller (V1)2

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

on-board

STM32 QSPI Flash controller supporting the JEDEC CFI interface1

st,stm32-qspi-nor

GPIO & Headers

on-chip

STM32 GPIO Controller11

st,stm32-gpio

on-board

GPIO pins exposed on Arduino Uno (R3) headers1

arduino-header-r3

I2C

on-chip

STM32 I2C V2 controller2 2

st,stm32-i2c-v2

Input

on-board

FT3267/FT5XX6/FT6XX6 capacitive touch panels1

focaltech,ft5336

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 Flexible Memory Controller (FMC)1

st,stm32-fmc

on-chip

STM32 Flexible Memory Controller (SDRAM controller)1

st,stm32-fmc-sdram

on-chip

STM32 Battery Backed RAM1

st,stm32-bbram

MMC

on-chip

STM32 SDMMC Disk Access1

st,stm32-sdmmc

MMU / MPU

on-chip

ARMv7-M Memory Protection Unit (MPU)1

arm,armv7m-mpu

MTD

on-chip

STM32 flash memory1

st,stm32-nv-flash

on-board

Fixed partitions of a flash (or other non-volatile storage) memory1

fixed-partitions

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 PWM1 11

st,stm32-pwm

QSPI

on-chip

STM32 QSPI Controller1

st,stm32-qspi

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 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 2

st,stm32-usart

on-chip

STM32 UART4

st,stm32-uart

SMbus

on-chip

STM32 SMBus controller4

st,stm32-smbus

SPI

on-chip

STM32 SPI controller with embedded Rx and Tx FIFOs1 5

st,stm32-spi-fifo

Timer

on-chip

ARMv7-M System Tick1

arm,armv7m-systick

on-chip

STM32 timers1 13

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

Pin Mapping

STM32F746G Discovery kit has 9 GPIO controllers. These controllers are responsible for pin muxing, input/output, pull-up, etc.

For more details please refer to 32F746G-DISCO board User Manual.

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

The STM32F746G Discovery kit features an Arduino Uno V3 connector. Board is configured as follows

  • UART_1 TX/RX : PA9/PB7 (ST-Link Virtual Port Com)

  • UART_6 TX/RX : PC6/PC7 (Arduino Serial)

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

  • SDMMC_1 D0/D1/D2/D3/CK/CD/CMD: PC8/PC9/PC10/PC11/PC12/PC13/PD2

  • SPI2 NSS/SCK/MISO/MOSI : PA8/PI1/PB14/PB15 (Arduino SPI)

  • PWM_3_CH1 : PB4

  • ETH : PA1, PA2, PA7, PC1, PC4, PC5, PG11, PG13, PG14

  • USER_PB : PI11

  • LD1 : PI1

  • USB DM : PA11

  • USB DP : PA12

  • FMC SDRAM :

    • D0-D15 : PD14/PD15/PD0/PD1/PE7/PE8/PE9/PE10/PE11/PE12/PE13/PE14/PE15/PD8/PD9/PD10

    • A0-A11 : PF0/PF1/PF2/PF3/PF4/PF5/PF12/PF13/PF14/PF15/PG0/PG1

    • A14/A15 : PG4/PG5

    • SDNRAS/SDNCAS : PF11/PG15

    • NBL0/NBL1 : PE0/PE1

    • SDCLK/SDNWE/SDCKE0/SDNE0 : PG8/PH5/PC3/PH3

  • LTDC :

    • R0-R7 : PI15/PJ0/PJ1/PJ2/PJ3/PJ4/PJ5/PJ6

    • G0-G7 : PJ7/PJ8/PJ9/PJ10/PJ11/PK0/PK1/PK2

    • B0-B7 : PJ12/PK13/PJ14/PJ15/PK3/PK4/PK5/PK6

    • DE/CLK/HSYNC/VSYNC : PK7/PI14/PI12/PI13

System Clock

The STM32F746G 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 216MHz, driven by a 25MHz high speed external clock.

Serial Port

The STM32F746G Discovery kit has up to 8 UARTs. The Zephyr console output is assigned to UART1 which connected to the onboard ST-LINK/V2 Virtual COM port interface. Default communication settings are 115200 8N1.

Programming and Debugging

STM32F746G Discovery kit includes an ST-LINK/V2 embedded debug tool interface.

Applications for the stm32f746g_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 STM32F746G

First, connect the STM32F746G Discovery kit to your host computer using the USB port to prepare it for flashing. Then build and flash your application.

Here is an example for the Hello World application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b stm32f746g_disco samples/hello_world
west flash

Run a serial host program to connect with your board:

$ minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0

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 stm32f746g_disco samples/hello_world
west debug