GigaDevice GD32VF103C-STARTER

Overview

The GD32VF103C-STARTER board is a hardware platform that enables prototyping on GD32VF103CB RISC-V MCU.

The GD32VF103CB features a single-core RISC-V 32-bit MCU which can run up to 108 MHz with flash accesses zero wait states, 128 KiB of Flash, 32 KiB of SRAM and 37 GPIOs.

Hardware

GD32VF103CBT6 MCU
1 x User LEDs
1 x USART (USB port with CH340E)
USB FS connector
GD-Link on board programmer
J-Link/JTAG connector

For more information about the GD32VF103 SoC and GD32VF103C-STARTER board:

Supported Features

The board configuration supports the following hardware features:

Peripheral	Kconfig option	Devicetree compatible
GPIO	`CONFIG_GPIO`	`gd,gd32-gpio`
Machine timer	`CONFIG_RISCV_MACHINE_TIMER`	`riscv,machine-timer`
Nuclei ECLIC Interrupt Controller	`CONFIG_NUCLEI_ECLIC`	`nuclei,eclic`
PWM	`CONFIG_PWM`	`gd,gd32-pwm`
USART	`CONFIG_SERIAL`	`gd,gd32-usart`

Serial Port

The GD32VF103C-STARTER board has one serial communications port. TX connected at PA9 and RX at PA10.

Programming and Debugging

Before programming your board make sure to configure boot and serial jumpers as follows:

JP2/3: Select 2-3 for both (boot from user memory)
JP5/6: Select 1-2 positions (labeled as USART0)

Using GD-Link

The GD32VF103C-STARTER includes an onboard programmer/debugger (GD-Link) which allows flash programming and debugging over USB. There is also a JTAG header (JP1) which can be used with tools like Segger J-Link.

Build the Zephyr kernel and the Hello World sample application:
```
west build -b gd32vf103c_starter samples/hello_world
```
Run your favorite terminal program to listen for output. On Linux the terminal should be something like /dev/ttyUSB0. For example:
```
minicom -D /dev/ttyUSB0 -o
```
The -o option tells minicom not to send the modem initialization string. Connection should be configured as follows:
- Speed: 115200
- Data: 8 bits
- Parity: None
- Stop bits: 1
To flash an image:
```
west build -b gd32vf103c_starter samples/hello_world
west flash
```
You should see “Hello World! gd32vf103c_starter” in your terminal.

To debug an image:

west build -b gd32vf103c_starter samples/hello_world
west debug