Nucleo F429ZI

Overview

The Nucleo F429ZI board features an ARM Cortex-M4 based STM32F429ZI MCU with a wide range of connectivity support and configurations. Here are some highlights of the Nucleo F429ZI board:

  • STM32 microcontroller in LQFP144 package

  • LSE crystal: 32.768 kHz crystal oscillator

  • USB OTG

  • Ethernet compliant with IEEE-802.3-2002

  • Two types of extension resources:

    • ST Zio connector including: support for Arduino* Uno V3 connectivity (A0 to A5, D0 to D15) and additional signals exposing a wide range of peripherals

    • ST morpho extension pin headers for full access to all STM32 I/Os

  • On-board ST-LINK/V2-1 debugger/programmer with SWD connector

  • Flexible board power supply:

    • 5 V from ST-LINK/V2-1 USB VBUS

    • External power sources: 3.3 V and 7 - 12 V on ST Zio or ST morpho connectors, 5 V on ST morpho connector

  • Three user LEDs

  • Two push-buttons: USER and RESET

More information about the board can be found at the Nucleo F429ZI website.

Hardware

The Nucleo F429ZI provides the following hardware components:

  • STM32F429ZIT6 in LQFP144 package

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

  • 180 MHz max CPU frequency

  • VDD from 1.8 V to 3.6 V

  • 2 MB Flash

  • 256+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 (4/4)

  • I2C (3)

  • SPI (6)

  • 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 STM32F429ZI can be found here:

Supported Features

The Zephyr nucleo_f429zi 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

ETHERNET

on-chip

Ethernet

PWM

on-chip

pwm

I2C

on-chip

i2c

USB

on-chip

usb

SPI

on-chip

spi

WATCHDOG

on-chip

independent watchdog

ADC

on-chip

adc

DAC

on-chip

DAC Controller

DMA

on-chip

Direct Memory Access

die-temp

on-chip

die temperature sensor

RTC

on-chip

rtc

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

The default configuration can be found in boards/st/nucleo_f429zi/nucleo_f429zi_defconfig

Connections and IOs

The Nucleo F429ZI Board has 8 GPIO controllers. These controllers are responsible for pin muxing, input/output, pull-up, etc.

Available pins:

Nucleo F429ZI ZIO connectors (left) Nucleo F429ZI ZIO connectors (right) Nucleo F429ZI Morpho connectors (left) Nucleo F429ZI Morpho connectors (right)

For more details please refer to STM32 Nucleo-144 board User Manual.

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

The Nucleo F429ZI board features a ST Zio connector (extended Arduino Uno V3) and a ST morpho connector. Board is configured as follows

  • UART_3 TX/RX : PD8/PD9 (ST-Link Virtual Port Com)

  • UART_6 TX/RX : PG14/PG9 (Arduino Serial)

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

  • SPI1 NSS/SCK/MISO/MOSI : PD14/PA5/PA6/PA7 (Arduino SPI)

  • PWM_2_CH1 : PE13

  • ETH : PA1, PA2, PA7, PB13, PC1, PC4, PC5, PG11, PG13

  • USER_PB : PC13

  • LD1 : PB0

  • LD2 : PB7

  • LD3 : PB14

  • USB DM : PA11

  • USB DP : PA12

  • ADC1 : PA0

System Clock

The Nucleo F429ZI System Clock could be driven by an internal or external oscillator, as well as by the main PLL clock. By default System clock is driven by PLL clock at 180MHz, driven by an 8MHz high speed external clock.

Serial Port

The Nucleo F429ZI board has 8 UARTs. The Zephyr console output is assigned to UART3. Default settings are 115200 8N1.

Programming and Debugging

The Nucleo F429ZI board includes an ST-LINK/V2-1 embedded debug tool interface.

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

Flash partitions for MCUBoot bootloader

The on-board STM32F429ZI MCU has 2MBs of internal flash memory. To use MCUboot, define a Zephyr partition table for the flash memory in its devicetree file nucleo_f429zi.dts. As a reference, a partition table for MCUBoot is already defined in the devicetree file, with these settings:

  • MCUBoot bootloader partition takes 64K bytes.

  • Zephyr settings partition takes 64K bytes.

  • Application image takes 256K bytes in Slot 0 partition.

  • Updating image takes another 256K bytes in Slot 1 partition.

  • A scratch partition with 128K is required for image swap.

A specific application can adjust each partition size based on its needs.