STM32N6570-DK

Overview

The STM32N6570_DK Discovery kit is a complete demonstration and development platform for the Arm® Cortex®‑M55 core‑based STM32N657X0H3Q microcontroller.

The STM32N6570_DK Discovery kit includes a full range of hardware features that help the user evaluate many peripherals, such as USB Type-C®, Octo‑SPI flash memory and Hexadeca‑SPI PSRAM devices, Ethernet, camera module, LCD, microSD™, audio codec, digital microphones, ADC, flexible extension connectors, and user button. The four flexible extension connectors feature easy and unlimited expansion capabilities for specific applications such as wireless connectivity, analog applications, and sensors.

The STM32N657X0H3Q microcontroller features one USB 2.0 high‑speed/full‑speed Device/Host/OTG controller, one USB 2.0 high‑speed/full‑speed Device/Host/OTG controller with UCPD (USB Type-C® Power Delivery), one Ethernet with TSN (time-sensitive networking), four I2Cs, two I3Cs, six SPIs (of which four I2S‑capable), two SAIs, with four DMIC support, five USARTs, five UARTs (ISO78916 interface, LIN, IrDA, up to 12.5 Mbit/s), one LPUART, two SDMMCs (MMC version 4.0, CE-ATA version 1.0, and SD version 1.0.1), three CAN FD with TTCAN capability, JTAG and SWD debugging support, and Embedded Trace Macrocell™ (ETM).

The STM32N6570_DK Discovery kit integrates an STLINK-V3EC embedded in-circuit debugger and programmer for the STM32 MCU, with a USB Virtual COM port bridge and the comprehensive MCU Package.

Hardware

  • STM32N657X0H3Q Arm® Cortex®‑M55‑based microcontroller featuring ST Neural-ART Accelerator, H264 encoder, NeoChrom 2.5D GPU, and 4.2 Mbytes of contiguous SRAM, in a VFBGA264 package

  • 5” LCD module with capacitive touch panel

  • USB Type-C® with USB 2.0 HS interface, dual‑role‑power (DRP)

  • USB Type-A with USB 2.0 HS interface, host, 0.5 A max

  • 1‑Gbit Ethernet with TSN (time-sensitive networking) compliant with IEEE‑802.3‑2002

  • SAI audio codec

  • One MEMS digital microphone

  • 1‑Gbit Octo‑SPI flash memory

  • 256-Mbit Hexadeca‑SPI PSRAM

  • Two user LEDs

  • User, tamper, and reset push-buttons

  • Board connectors:

    • USB Type-C®

    • USB Type-A

    • Ethernet RJ45

    • Camera module

    • microSD™ card

    • LCD

    • Stereo headset jack including analog microphone input

    • Audio MEMS daughterboard expansion connector

    • ARDUINO® Uno R3 expansion connector

    • STMod+ expansion connector

  • On-board STLINK-V3EC debugger/programmer with USB re-enumeration capability: Virtual COM port, and debug port

For more details, please refer to:

Supported Features

The Zephyr stm32n6570_dk board supports the following hardware features:

Interface

Controller

Driver/Component

CLOCK

on-chip

reset and clock control

DMA

on-chip

Direct Memory Access Controller

GPIO

on-chip

gpio

NVIC

on-chip

nested vector interrupt controller

UART

on-chip

serial port-polling; serial port-interrupt

Other hardware features are not yet supported on this Zephyr port.

The default configuration can be found in the defconfig file: boards/st/stm32n6570_dk/stm32n6570_dk_defconfig

Connections and IOs

STM32N6570_DK Board has 12 GPIO controllers. These controllers are responsible for pin muxing, input/output, pull-up, etc.

For more details please refer to STM32N6570_DK User Manual.

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

  • LD1 : PO1

  • LD2 : PG10

  • USART_1_TX : PE5

  • USART_1_RX : PE6

System Clock

STM32N6570_DK 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 400MHz, driven by 64MHz high speed internal oscillator.

Serial Port

STM32N6570_DK board has 10 U(S)ARTs. The Zephyr console output is assigned to USART1. Default settings are 115200 8N1.

Programming and Debugging

STM32N6570_DK board includes an ST-LINK/V3 embedded debug tool interface. This probe allows to flash and debug the board using various tools.

Flashing or loading

The board is configured to be programmed using west STM32CubeProgrammer runner, so its installation is needed. Version 2.18.0 or later of STM32CubeProgrammer is required.

To program the board, there are two options:

  • Program the firmware in external flash. At boot, it will then be loaded on RAM and executed from there.

  • Optionally, it can also be taken advantage from the serial boot interface provided by the boot ROM. In that case, firmware is directly loaded in RAM and executed from there. It is not retained.

Programming an application to STM32N6570_DK

Here is an example to build and run Hello World application.

First, connect the STM32N6570_DK to your host computer using the ST-Link USB port.

Build and flash an application using stm32n6570_dk target.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b stm32n6570_dk samples/hello_world
west flash

Note

For flashing, before powering the board, set the boot pins in the following configuration:

  • BOOT0: 0

  • BOOT1: 1

After flashing, to run the application, set the boot pins in the following configuration:

  • BOOT1: 0

Power off and on the board again.

Run a serial host program to connect to your board:

$ minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0

Run a serial host program to connect with your Disco board:

$ minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0

You should see the following message on the console:

Hello World! stm32n6570_dk/stm32n657xx

Debugging

For now debugging is only available through STM32CubeIDE:

  • Go to File > Import and select C/C++ > STM32 Cortex-M Executable.

  • In Executable field, browse to your <ZEPHYR_PATH>/build/zephyr/zephyr.elf.

  • In MCU field, select STM32N657X0HxQ.

  • Click on Finish.

  • Finally, click on Debug to start the debugging session.

Note

For debugging, before powering on the board, set the boot pins in the following configuration:

  • BOOT0: 0

  • BOOT1: 1

Running tests with twister

Due to the BOOT switches manipulation required when flashing the board using stm32n6570_dk board target, it is only possible to run twister tests campaign on stm32n6570_dk/stm32n657xx/sb board target which doesn’t require BOOT pins changes to load and execute binaries. To do so, it is advised to use Twister’s hardware map feature with the following settings:

- platform: stm32n6570_dk/stm32n657xx/sb
  product: BOOT-SERIAL
  pre_script: <path_to_zephyr>/boards/st/common/scripts/board_power_reset.sh
  runner: stm32cubeprogrammer