Nucleo L432KC

Overview

The Nucleo L432KC board features an ARM Cortex-M4 based STM32L432KC MCU with a wide range of connectivity support and configurations. Here are some highlights of the Nucleo L432KC board:

  • STM32 microcontroller in UFQFPN32 package

  • Arduino Uno V3 connectivity

  • 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), power LED (LD2), user LED (LD3)

  • One push-button: RESET

More information about the board can be found at the Nucleo L432KC website.

Hardware

The STM32L432KC SoC provides the following hardware IPs:

  • Ultra-low-power with FlexPowerControl (down to 28 nA Standby mode and 84 µA/MHz run mode)

  • Core: ARM® 32-bit Cortex® -M4 CPU with FPU, frequency up to 80 MHz, 100DMIPS/1.25DMIPS/MHz (Dhrystone 2.1)

  • Clock Sources:

    • 32 kHz crystal oscillator for RTC (LSE)

    • Internal 16 MHz factory-trimmed RC ( ±1%)

    • Internal low-power 32 kHz RC ( ±5%)

    • Internal multispeed 100 kHz to 48 MHz oscillator, auto-trimmed by LSE (better than ±0.25 % accuracy)

    • 2 PLLs for system clock, USB, audio, ADC

  • RTC with HW calendar, alarms and calibration

  • Up to 3 capacitive sensing channels: support touchkey, linear and rotary touch sensors

  • 11x timers:

    • 1x 16-bit advanced motor-control

    • 1x 32-bit and 2x 16-bit general purpose

    • 2x 16-bit basic

    • 2x low-power 16-bit timers (available in Stop mode)

    • 2x watchdogs

    • SysTick timer

  • Up to 26 fast I/Os, most 5 V-tolerant

  • Memories

    • Up to 256 KB single bank Flash, proprietary code readout protection

    • Up to 64 KB of SRAM including 16 KB with hardware parity check

    • Quad SPI memory interface

  • Rich analog peripherals (independent supply)

    • 1x 12-bit ADC 5 MSPS, up to 16-bit with hardware oversampling, 200 µA/MSPS

    • 2x 12-bit DAC, low-power sample and hold

    • 1x operational amplifiers with built-in PGA

    • 2x ultra-low-power comparators

  • 13x communication interfaces

    • USB OTG 2.0 full-speed crystal less solution with LPM and BCD

    • 1x SAIs (serial audio interface)

    • 2x I2C FM+(1 Mbit/s), SMBus/PMBus

    • 3x USARTs (ISO 7816, LIN, IrDA, modem)

    • 2x SPIs (3x SPIs with the Quad SPI)

    • CAN (2.0B Active)

    • SWPMI single wire protocol master I/F

    • IRTIM (Infrared interface)

  • 14-channel DMA controller

  • True random number generator

  • CRC calculation unit, 96-bit unique ID

  • Development support: serial wire debug (SWD), JTAG, Embedded Trace Macrocell*

More information about STM32L432KC can be found here:

Supported Features

The Zephyr nucleo_l432kc 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

I2C

on-chip

i2c

PWM

on-chip

pwm

CAN

on-chip

can

Note

CAN feature requires CAN transceiver

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

The default configuration can be found in the defconfig file: boards/st/nucleo_l432kc/nucleo_l432kc_defconfig

Connections and IOs

Nucleo L432KC Board has 6 GPIO controllers. These controllers are responsible for pin muxing, input/output, pull-up, etc.

Available pins:

Nucleo L432KC Arduino connectors

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

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

  • UART_1_TX : PA9

  • UART_1_RX : PA10

  • UART_2_TX : PA2

  • UART_2_RX : PA3

  • I2C_1_SCL : PB6

  • I2C_1_SDA : PB7

  • PWM_2_CH1 : PA0

  • LD3 : PB3

System Clock

Nucleo L432KC System Clock could be driven by internal or external oscillator, as well as main PLL clock. By default System clock is driven by PLL clock at 80MHz, driven by 16MHz high speed internal oscillator.

Serial Port

Nucleo L432KC board has 3 U(S)ARTs. The Zephyr console output is assigned to UART2. Default settings are 115200 8N1.

Programming and Debugging

Nucleo L432KC board includes an ST-LINK/V2-1 embedded debug tool interface.

Applications for the nucleo_l432kc 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 L432KC

Connect the Nucleo L432KC to your host computer using the USB port, then run a serial host program to connect with your Nucleo board.

$ minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0

Now build and flash an application. Here is an example for Hello World.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b nucleo_l432kc 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_l432kc samples/hello_world
west debug