Nucleo F446ZE

Overview

The Nucleo F446ZE board features an ARM Cortex-M4 based STM32F446ZE MCU with a wide range of connectivity support and configurations. Here are some highlights of the Nucleo F446ZE board:

  • STM32F446 microcontroller in QFP144 package

  • Two types of extension resources:

    • ST zio 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

  • USB re-enumeration capability. Three different interfaces supported on USB: - Virtual Com port - Mass storage (USB Disk drive) for drag’n’drop programming - Debug port

  • Flexible board power supply: - USB VBUS or external source(3.3V, 5V, 7 - 12V) - Power management access point - USB OTG

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

  • Two push-buttons: USER and RESET

More information about the board can be found at the Nucleo F446ZE website.

Hardware

Nucleo F446ZE provides the following hardware components:

  • STM32F446ZET6 in LQFP144 package

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

  • Adaptive real-time accelerator (ART Accelerator)

  • 180 MHz max CPU frequency

  • VDD from 1.7 V to 3.6 V

  • 512 KB Flash

  • 128 KB SRAM

  • 10 General purpose timers

  • 2 Advanced control timers

  • 2 basic timers

  • SPI(4)

  • I2C(4)

  • USART(4)

  • UART(2)

  • USB OTG Full Speed and High Speed

  • CAN(2)

  • SAI(2)

  • SPDIF_Rx(1)

  • HDMI_CEC(1)

  • Quad SPI(1)

  • Camera Interface

  • GPIO(50) with external interrupt capability

  • 12-bit ADC(3) with 16 channels

  • 12-bit DAC with 2 channels

More information about STM32F446ZE can be found here:

Supported Features

The Zephyr nucleo_f446ze board configuration supports the following hardware features:

Interface

Controller

Driver/Component

NVIC

on-chip

nested vector interrupt controller

UART

on-chip

serial port

PINMUX

on-chip

pinmux

GPIO

on-chip

gpio

PWM

on-chip

pwm

I2C

on-chip

i2c

USB

on-chip

usb

Backup SRAM

on-chip

Backup SRAM

CAN 1/2

on-chip

Controller Area Network

ADC

on-chip

Analog Input

DAC

on-chip

Analog Output

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

The default configuration can be found in boards/st/nucleo_f446ze/nucleo_f446ze_defconfig

Connections and IOs

Nucleo F446ZE Board has 8 GPIO controllers. These controllers are responsible for pin muxing, input/output, pull-up, etc.

Available pins:

Nucleo F446ZE Zio/Arduino connectors (left) Nucleo F446ZE Zio/Arduino connectors (right) Nucleo F446ZE Morpho connectors (left) Nucleo F446ZE Morpho connectors (right)

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

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

  • UART_2_TX : PD5

  • UART_2_RX : PD6

  • UART_3_TX : PD8

  • UART_3_RX : PD9

  • USER_PB : PC13

  • LD0 : PB0

  • LD1 : PB7

  • LD2 : PB14

  • I2C1_SDA : PB9

  • I2C1_SCL : PB8

  • I2C2_SDA : PF0

  • I2C2_SCL : PF1

  • SPI1_CS : PD14

  • SPI1_SCK : PA5

  • SPI1_MISO : PA6

  • SPI1_MOSI : PA7

  • SPI2_NSS : PB12

  • SPI2_SCK : PB13

  • SPI2_MISO : PB14

  • SPI2_MOSI : PB15

  • CAN1_RX : PD0

  • CAN1_TX : PD1

  • USB_DP : PA11

  • USB_DM : PA12

  • ADC1_IN0 : PA0

  • DAC_OUT1 : PA4

System Clock

Nucleo F446ZE System Clock could be driven by an internal or external oscillator, as well as the main PLL clock. By default, the System clock is driven by the PLL clock at 84MHz, driven by an 8MHz high-speed external clock.

Serial Port

Nucleo F446ZE board has 2 UARTs and 4 USARTs. The Zephyr console output is assigned to USART3. Default settings are 115200 8N1.

Backup SRAM

In order to test backup SRAM you may want to disconnect VBAT from VDD. You can do it by removing SB156 jumper on the back side of the board.

Controller Area Network

The TX/RX wires are connected with pins 25/27 of CN9 connector.

Programming and Debugging

Nucleo F446ZE board includes an ST-LINK/V2-1 embedded debug tool interface.

Applications for the nucleo_f446ze 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 Nucleo F446ZE

Here is an example for the Hello World application.

Run a serial host program to connect with your Nucleo board.

$ minicom -b 115200 -D /dev/ttyACM0

Build and flash the application:

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b nucleo_f446ze samples/hello_world
west flash

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 nucleo_f446ze samples/hello_world
west debug