Arduino OPTA

Overview

The Arduino™ Opta® is a secure micro Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) with Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities.

Developed in partnership with Finder®, this device supports both the Arduino programming language and standard IEC-61131-3 PLC programming languages, such as Ladder Diagram (LD), Sequential Function Chart (SFC), Function Block Diagram (FBD), Structured Text (ST), and Instruction List (IL), making it an ideal device for automation engineers.

For Zephyr RTOS, both cores are supported. It is also possible to run only on the M4 making the M7 run the PLC tasks while the M4 core under Zephyr acts as a coprocessor.

Additionally, the device features:

Ethernet compliant with IEEE802.3-2002
16MB QSPI Flash
4 x green color status LEDs
1 x green or red led over the reset push-button
1 x blue led over the user push-button (Opta Advanced only)
1 x user push-button
1 x reset push-button accessible via pinhole
8 x analog inputs
4 x isolated relay outputs

More information about the board can be found at the ARDUINO-OPTA website. More information about STM32H747XIH6 can be found here:

Supported Features

The arduino_opta/stm32h747xx/m7 board target supports the following hardware features:

Interface	Controller	Driver/Component
NVIC	on-chip	nested vector interrupt controller
PINMUX	on-chip	pinmux
GPIO	on-chip	gpio
FLASH	on-chip	flash memory
RNG	on-chip	True Random number generator
IPM	on-chip	virtual mailbox based on HSEM
USB	on-board	usb-fs
ETHERNET	on-board	eth
RS485	on-board	uart

The arduino_opta/stm32h747xx/m4 board target supports the following hardware features:

Interface	Controller	Driver/Component
NVIC	on-chip	nested vector interrupt controller
PINMUX	on-chip	pinmux
GPIO	on-chip	gpio
FLASH	on-chip	flash memory
RNG	on-chip	True Random number generator
IPM	on-chip	virtual mailbox based on HSEM

Other hardware features are not yet supported on Zephyr porting.

The default configuration per core can be found in the defconfig files: boards/arduino/opta/arduino_opta_stm32h747xx_m4_defconfig and boards/arduino/opta/arduino_opta_stm32h747xx_m7_defconfig.

Pin Mapping

Both the M7 and M4 cores have access to the 9 GPIO controllers. These controllers are responsible for pin muxing, input/output, pull-up, etc.

For more details please refer to ARDUINO-OPTA website.

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping

Status LED1: PI0
Status LED2: PI1
Status LED3: PI3
Status LED4: PH15
Green “reset” LED: PH12
Red “reset” LED: PH11
Blue LED: PE5
User button: PE4
Input 1 : PA0
Input 2 : PC2
Input 3 : PF12
Input 4 : PB0
Input 5 : PF10
Input 6 : PF8
Input 7 : PF6
Input 8 : PF4
Relay 1: PI6
Relay 2: PI5
Relay 3: PI7
Relay 4: PI4

System Clock

The STM32H747I System Clock can be driven by an internal or external oscillator, as well as by the main PLL clock. By default, the CPU2 (Cortex-M4) System clock is driven at 240MHz. PLL clock is fed by a 25MHz high speed external clock. The M7 clock is driven at 400MHz.

Programming and Debugging

Applications for the arduino_opta use the regular Zephyr build commands. See Building an Application for more information about application builds.

Flashing

Flashing operation will depend on the target to be flashed and the SoC option bytes configuration. The OPTA has a DFU capable bootloader which can be accessed by connecting the device to the USB, and then pressing the RESET button shortly twice, the RESET-LED on the board will fade indicating the board is in bootloader mode.

By default:

CPU1 (Cortex-M7) boot address is set to 0x08040000

CPU2 (Cortex-M4) boot address is set to 0x08180000

Zephyr flash configuration has been set to be compatible with the “Flash split: 1.5MB M7 + 0.5MB M4” option in the Arduino IDE. The flash is partitioned as follows:

0x08000000-0x0803FFFF (256k) Arduino MCUboot-derived bootloader

0x08040000-0x080FFFFF (768k) M7 application

0x08180000-0x081FFFFF (512k) M4 application

Flashing an application to ARDUINO OPTA M7

First, connect the device 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 Blinky application on M7 core.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b arduino_opta/stm32h747xx/m7 samples/basic/blinky
west flash

Flashing an application to ARDUINO OPTA M4

First, connect the device 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 Blinky application on M4 core.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b arduino_opta/stm32h747xx/m4 samples/basic/blinky
west flash

Starting the application on the ARDUINO OPTA M4

If you also flashed an application to M7 the M4 processor is started at boot. If not you will need to start the processor from an Arduino sketch.

Make sure the option bytes are set to prevent the M4 from auto-starting, and that the M7 side starts the M4 at the correct Flash address.

This can be done by selecting in the Arduino IDE’s “Tools” / “Flash Split” menu the “1.5MB M7 + 0.5MB M4” option, and loading a sketch that contains at least the following code:

#include <RPC.h>

void setup() {
    RPC.begin();
}

void loop() { }

Debugging

The debug port does not have an easy access but it is possible to open the case and solder a standard 10-pin SWD connector to the board. After that both flashing and debugging are available via ST-LINK (M7 core only).