Nucleo G070RB

Overview

The Nucleo G070RB board features an ARM Cortex-M0+ based STM32G070RB MCU with a wide range of connectivity support and configurations. Here are some highlights of the Nucleo G070RB board:

  • STM32 microcontroller in QFP64 package

  • Two types of extension resources:

    • Arduino Uno V3 connectivity

    • 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:

    • USB VBUS or external source(3.3V, 5V, 7 - 12V)

    • Power management access point

  • Three LEDs: USB communication (LD1), user LED (LD4), power LED (LD3)

  • Two push-buttons: USER and RESET

More information about the board can be found at the Nucleo G070RB website [1].

Hardware

Nucleo G070RB provides the following hardware components:

  • STM32 microcontroller in LQFP64 package

  • Two types of extension resources:

    • Arduino* Uno V3 connectivity

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

  • ARM* mbed*

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

    • Selection-mode switch to use the kit as a standalone ST-LINK/V2-1

  • Flexible board power supply:

    • USB VBUS or external source (3.3V, 5V, 7 - 12V)

    • Power management access point

  • Three LEDs:

    • USB communication (LD1), user LED (LD4), power LED (LD3)

  • Two push-buttons: USER and RESET

  • USB re-enumeration capability. Three different interfaces supported on USB:

    • Virtual COM port

    • Mass storage

    • Debug port

  • Support of wide choice of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) including:

    • IAR

    • ARM Keil

    • GCC-based IDEs

More information about STM32G070RB can be found here:

Supported Features

The Zephyr nucleo_g070rb board configuration supports the following hardware features:

Interface

Controller

Driver/Component

MPU

on-chip

arm memory protection unit

NVIC

on-chip

nested vector interrupt controller

UART

on-chip

serial port-polling; serial port-interrupt

PINMUX

on-chip

pinmux

GPIO

on-chip

gpio

I2C

on-chip

i2c

SPI

on-chip

spi

CLOCK

on-chip

reset and clock control

FLASH

on-chip

flash memory

COUNTER

on-chip

rtc

WATCHDOG

on-chip

independent watchdog

PWM

on-chip

pwm

ADC

on-chip

adc

die-temp

on-chip

die temperature sensor

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

The default configuration can be found in the defconfig file: boards/st/nucleo_g070rb/nucleo_g070rb_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. All GPIOs are high current capable except for analog inputs.

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

  • UART_1 TX/RX : PC4/PC5

  • UART_2 TX/RX : PA2/PA3 (ST-Link Virtual Port Com)

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

  • I2C2 SCL/SDA : PA11/PA12

  • SPI1 NSS/SCK/MISO/MOSI : PB0/PA5/PA6/PA7 (Arduino SPI)

  • SPI2 NSS/SCK/MISO/MOSI : PB12/PB13/PB14/PB15

  • USER_PB : PC13

  • LD4 : PA5

  • PWM : PA6

  • ADC1 IN0 : PA0

  • ADC1 IN1 : PA1

  • DAC1_OUT1 : PA4

For more details please refer to STM32 Nucleo-64 board User Manual [2].

Programming and Debugging

Nucleo G070RB board includes an ST-LINK/V2-1 embedded debug tool interface.

Applications for the nucleo_g070rb 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 [4] runner, so its installation is required.

Alternatively, OpenOCD, JLink, or pyOCD can also be used to flash the board using the --runner (or -r) option:

$ west flash --runner openocd
$ west flash --runner jlink
$ west flash --runner pyocd

Flashing an application to Nucleo G070RB

Here is an example for the Blinky application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b nucleo_g070rb 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 Hello World application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b nucleo_g070rb samples/hello_world
west debug

References