Nucleo L4R5ZI

Overview

The Nucleo L4R5ZI board features an ARM Cortex-M4 based STM32L4R5ZI MCU with a wide range of connectivity support and configurations. Here are some highlights of the Nucleo L4R5ZI board:

  • STM32 microcontroller in LQFP144 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 User LEDs: LD1 (Green), LD2 (Blue), LD3 (Red)

  • Two push-buttons: USER and RESET

More information about the board can be found at the Nucleo L4R5ZI website.

Hardware

The STM32L4R5ZI SoC provides the following hardware IPs:

  • Ultra-low-power with FlexPowerControl (down to 130 nA Standby mode and 100 uA/MHz run mode)

  • Core: ARM® 32-bit Cortex®-M4 CPU with FPU, adaptive real-time accelerator (ART Accelerator) allowing 0-wait-state execution from Flash memory, frequency up to 120 MHz, MPU, 150 DMIPS/1.25 DMIPS/MHz (Dhrystone 2.1), and DSP instructions

  • Clock Sources:

    • 4 to 48 MHz crystal oscillator

    • 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)

    • Internal 48 MHz with clock recovery

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

  • RTC with HW calendar, alarms and calibration

  • Up to 24 capacitive sensing channels: support touchkey, linear and rotary touch sensors

  • Advanced graphics features

    • Chrom-ART Accelerator™ (DMA2D) for enhanced graphic content creation

    • Chrom-GRC™ (GFXMMU) allowing up to 20% of graphic resources optimization

    • MIPI® DSI Host controller with two DSI lanes running at up to 500 Mbits/s each

    • LCD-TFT controller

  • 16x timers

    • 2 x 16-bit advanced motor-control

    • 2 x 32-bit and 5 x 16-bit general purpose

    • 2x 16-bit basic

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

    • 2x watchdogs

    • SysTick timer

  • Up to 136 fast I/Os, most 5 V-tolerant, up to 14 I/Os with independent supply down to 1.08 V

  • Memories

    • 2-Mbyte Flash, 2 banks read-while-write, proprietary code readout protection

    • 640 Kbytes of SRAM including 64 Kbytes with hardware parity check

    • External memory interface for static memories supporting SRAM, PSRAM, NOR, NAND and FRAM memories

    • 2 x OctoSPI memory interface

  • 4x digital filters for sigma delta modulator

  • Rich analog peripherals (independent supply)

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

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

    • 2x operational amplifiers with built-in PGA

    • 2x ultra-low-power comparators

  • 20x communication interfaces

    • USB OTG 2.0 full-speed, LPM and BCD

    • 2x SAIs (serial audio interface)

    • 4x I2C FM+(1 Mbit/s), SMBus/PMBus

    • 6x USARTs (ISO 7816, LIN, IrDA, modem)

    • 3x SPIs (5x SPIs with the dual OctoSPI)

    • CAN (2.0B Active) and SDMMC

  • 14-channel DMA controller

  • True random number generator

  • CRC calculation unit, 96-bit unique ID

  • 8- to 14-bit camera interface up to 32 MHz (black and white) or 10 MHz (color)

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

More information about STM32L4R5ZI can be found here:

Supported Features

The Zephyr nucleo_l4r5zi 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

SPI

on-chip

spi

USB

on-chip

usb

ADC

on-chip

adc

RTC

on-chip

rtc

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

The default configuration can be found in the defconfig file: boards/st/nucleo_l4r5zi/nucleo_l4r5zi_defconfig

Connections and IOs

Nucleo L4R5ZI Board has 8 GPIO controllers. These controllers are responsible for pin muxing, input/output, pull-up, etc.

Available pins:

Nucleo L4R5ZI Arduino connectors

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

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

  • UART_1_TX : PA9

  • UART_1_RX : PA10

  • UART_2_TX : PA2

  • UART_2_RX : PA3

  • UART_3_TX : PB10

  • UART_3_RX : PB11

  • I2C_1_SCL : PB6

  • I2C_1_SDA : PB7

  • SPI_1_NSS : PD14

  • SPI_1_SCK : PA5

  • SPI_1_MISO : PA6

  • SPI_1_MOSI : PA7

  • SPI_2_NSS : PB12

  • SPI_2_SCK : PB13

  • SPI_2_MISO : PB14

  • SPI_2_MOSI : PB15

  • SPI_3_NSS : PB12

  • SPI_3_SCK : PC10

  • SPI_3_MISO : PC11

  • SPI_3_MOSI : PC12

  • PWM_2_CH1 : PA0

  • USER_PB : PC13

  • LD1 : PC7

  • LD2 : PB7

  • LD3 : PB14

  • USB DM : PA11

  • USB DP : PA12

  • ADC1 : PC0

System Clock

Nucleo L4R5ZI System Clock could be driven by internal or external oscillator, as well as main PLL clock. By default, the System clock is driven by the PLL clock at 80MHz, driven by a 16MHz high speed internal oscillator. The clock can be boosted to 120MHz if boost mode is selected.

Serial Port

Nucleo L4R5ZI board has 5 U(S)ARTs. The Zephyr console output is assigned to UART2. Default settings are 115200 8N1.

Network interface

Ethernet over USB is configured as the default network interface (EEM)

Programming and Debugging

The NUCLEO-L4R5ZI board includes a ST-LINK/V2 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

Flashing an application to Nucleo L4R4ZI

Connect the Nucleo L4R5ZI to your host computer using the USB port. Then build and flash an application.

Here is an example for the Hello World application.

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

$ minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0

Then build and flash the application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b nucleo_l4r5zi samples/hello_world
west flash

You should see the following message on the console:

Hello World! arm