STM32F072B Discovery

Overview

The STM32F072B-DISCO Discovery kit features an ARM Cortex-M0 based STM32F072RB MCU with everything required for beginners and experienced users to get started quickly. Here are some highlights of the STM32F072B-DISCO board:

  • STM32 microcontroller in LQFP64 package

  • Extension header for LQFP64 I/Os for a quick connection to the prototyping board and easy probing

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

  • Board power supply: through USB bus or from an external 5 V supply voltage

  • External application power supply: 3 V and 5 V

  • Six LEDs:

    • LD1 (red/green) for USB communication

    • LD2 (red) for 3.3 V power on

    • Four user LEDs: LD3 (orange), LD4 (green), LD5 (red) and LD6 (blue)

  • Two push-buttons: USER and RESET

  • USB USER with Mini-B connector

  • L3GD20, ST MEMS motion sensor, 3-axis digital output gyroscope

  • One linear touch sensor or four touch keys

  • RF EEprom daughter board connector

More information about the board can be found at the STM32F072B-DISCO website [1].

Hardware

STM32F072B-DISCO Discovery kit provides the following hardware components:

  • STM32F072RBTT6 in LQFP64 package

  • ARM® 32-bit Cortex® -M0 CPU

  • 48 MHz max CPU frequency

  • VDD from 2.0 V to 3.6 V

  • 128 KB Flash

  • 16 KB SRAM

  • GPIO with external interrupt capability

  • 12-bit ADC with 39 channels

  • 12-bit D/A converters

  • RTC

  • General Purpose Timers (12)

  • USART/UART (4)

  • I2C (2)

  • SPI (2)

  • CAN

  • USB 2.0 full speed interface

  • DMA Controller

  • 24 capacitive sensing channels for touchkey, linear and rotary touch sensors

More information about STM32F072RB can be found here:

Supported Features

The Zephyr stm32f072b_disco 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

CLOCK

on-chip

reset and clock control

WATCHDOG

on-chip

independent watchdog

I2C

on-chip

i2c controller

SPI

on-chip

SPI controller

CAN

on-chip

CAN controller

Note

CAN feature requires CAN transceiver, such as SK Pang CAN breakout board [5].

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

The default configuration can be found in boards/st/stm32f072b_disco/stm32f072b_disco_defconfig

Pin Mapping

STM32F072B-DISCO Discovery kit has 6 GPIO controllers. These controllers are responsible for pin muxing, input/output, pull-up, etc.

For more details please refer to STM32F072B-DISCO board User Manual [2].

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

  • UART_1_TX : PB6

  • UART_1_RX : PB7

  • I2C1_SCL : PB8

  • I2C1_SDA : PB9

  • I2C2_SCL : PB10

  • I2C2_SDA : PB11

  • SPI1_SCK : PB3

  • SPI1_MISO : PB4

  • SPI1_MOSI : PB5

  • USER_PB : PA0

  • LD3 : PC6

  • LD4 : PC8

  • LD5 : PC9

  • LD6 : PC7

  • CAN_RX : PB8

  • CAN_TX : PB9

System Clock

STM32F072B-DISCO 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 72 MHz, driven by internal 8 MHz oscillator.

Serial Port

STM32F072B-DISCO Discovery kit has up to 4 UARTs. The Zephyr console output is assigned to UART 1. Default settings are 115200 8N1.

Programming and Debugging

STM32F072B-DISCO board includes an ST-LINK/V2 embedded debug tool interface.

Applications for the stm32f072b_disco 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 [6] 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 STM32F072B-DISCO

First, connect the STM32F072B-DISCO Discovery kit to your host computer using the USB port to prepare it for flashing. Then build and flash your application.

Here is an example for the Hello World application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b stm32f072b_disco samples/hello_world
west flash

Run a serial host program to connect with your board. A TTL(3.3V) serial adapter is required.

$ minicom -D /dev/<tty device>

Replace <tty_device> with the port where the serial adapter can be found. For example, under Linux, /dev/ttyUSB0.

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 stm32f072b_disco samples/hello_world
west debug

References