Nucleo F042K6

Overview

The STM32 Nucleo-32 development board with STM32F042K6 MCU, supports Arduino nano connectivity.

The STM32 Nucleo board provides an affordable, and flexible way for users to try out new concepts, and build prototypes with the STM32 microcontroller, choosing from the various combinations of performance, power consumption and features.

The STM32 Nucleo board integrates the ST-LINK/V2-1 debugger and programmer.

The STM32 Nucleo board comes with the STM32 comprehensive software HAL library together with various packaged software examples.

More information about the board can be found at the Nucleo F042K6 website [1].

Hardware

Nucleo F042K6 provides the following hardware components:

  • STM32 microcontroller in LQFP32 package

  • 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)

  • Three LEDs:

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

  • reset push button

More information about STM32F042K6 can be found here:

Supported Features

The Zephyr nucleo_f042k6 board configuration supports the following hardware features:

Interface

Controller

Driver/Component

NVIC

on-chip

nested vector interrupt controller

UART

on-chip

serial port-polling; serial port-interrupt

PINMUX

on-chip

pinmux

GPIO

on-chip

gpio

CLOCK

on-chip

reset and clock control

FLASH

on-chip

flash memory

I2C

on-chip

i2c controller

SPI

on-chip

spi controller

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

The default configuration can be found in boards/st/nucleo_f042k6/nucleo_f042k6_defconfig

Connections and IOs

Each of the GPIO pins can be configured by software as output (push-pull or open-drain), as input (with or without pull-up or pull-down), or as peripheral alternate function. Most of the GPIO pins are shared with digital or analog alternate functions.

Board connectors:

Nucleo F042K6 connectors

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

  • UART_1 TX/RX : PA2/PA15 (ST-Link Virtual COM Port)

  • I2C1 SCL/SDA : PB6/PB7 (Arduino I2C)

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

  • LD2 : PB3

For more details please refer to STM32 Nucleo-32 board User Manual [4].

Programming and Debugging

Nucleo F042K6 board includes an ST-LINK/V2-1 embedded debug tool interface.

Applications for the nucleo_f042k6 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 [5] 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 F042K6

Here is an example for the Blinky application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b nucleo_f042k6 samples/basic/blinky
west flash

You will see the LED blinking every second.

Debugging

You can debug an application in the usual way. Here is an example for the Blinky application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b nucleo_f042k6 samples/basic/blinky
west debug

References