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

  • One push-button: RESET

Nucleo L432KC

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)

    • 1× 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

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

The default configuration can be found in the defconfig file:

boards/arm/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 mode 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

Flashing

Nucleo L432KC board includes an ST-LINK/V2-1 embedded debug tool interface. This interface is not supported by the openocd version 0.9 included by the Zephyr SDK v0.9. Until we update the Zephyr SDK, use openocd v0.10.0 from the openocd-stm32 project on GitHub to get the minimum set of scripts needed to flash and debug STM32 development boards.

$ git clone  https://github.com/erwango/openocd-stm32.git

Then follow instructions in README.md

Flashing an application to Nucleo L432KC

The sample application Hello World is being used in this tutorial:

To build the Zephyr kernel and application, enter:

$ cd <zephyr_root_path>
$ source zephyr-env.sh
$ cd $ZEPHYR_BASE/samples/hello_world/
$ make BOARD=nucleo_l432kc

Connect the Nucleo L432KC to your host computer using the USB port. Then, enter the following command:

$ cd <openocd-stm32_path>
$ stm32_flsh l4 $ZEPHYR_BASE/samples/hello_world/outdir/nucleo_l432kc/zephyr.bin

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

$ minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0

You should see the following message:

$ Hello World! arm

Debugging

Access gdb with the following make command:

$ cd <openocd-stm32_path>
$ stm32_dbg l4 $ZEPHYR_BASE/samples/hello_world/outdir/nucleo_l432kc/zephyr.elf