Black STM32 F407VE Development Board

Overview

The BLACK_F407VE board features an ARM Cortex-M4 based STM32F407xx MCU with a wide range of connectivity support and configurations. There are multiple version of this board like black_f407ve. Here are some highlights of the BLACK_F407VE board:

  • STM32 microcontroller in LQFP100 package

  • Extension header for all LQFP100 I/Os for quick connection to prototyping board and easy probing

  • Flexible board power supply:

    • USB VBUS or external source (3.3V, 5V)

    • Power management access point

  • Three LEDs:

    • 3.3 V power on (LD0)

    • Two user LEDs: green (LD1), green (LD2)

  • Four push-buttons: RESET, K0, K1 and WK_UP

  • Mini-AB connector

BLACK_F407VE

See also board descriptions at STM32-base website, STM32F407VET6 black board and MCUDev Black STM32F407VET6

Warning

The +5V pins on this board are directly connected to the +5V pin of the USB connector. There is no protection in place. Do not power this board through USB and an external power supply at the same time.

Hardware

BLACK_F407VE board provides the following hardware components:

  • STM32F407VET6 in LQFP100 package

  • ARM® 32-bit Cortex® -M4 CPU with FPU

  • 168 MHz max CPU frequency

  • VDD from 1.8 V to 3.6 V

  • 8MHz system crystal

  • 32.768KHz RTC crystal

  • JTAG/SWD header

  • 512 kB Flash

  • 192+4 KB SRAM including 64-Kbyte of core coupled memory

  • GPIO with external interrupt capability

  • 3x12-bit ADC with 24 channels

  • 2x12-bit D/A converters

  • RTC battery CR1220

  • Advanced-control Timer (2)

  • General Purpose Timers (12)

  • Watchdog Timers (2)

  • USART (3), UART (2)

  • I2C (3)

  • I2S (2)

  • SPI (3)

  • SDIO (1)

  • CAN (2)

  • USB 2.0 OTG FS with on-chip PHY

  • USB 2.0 OTG HS/FS with dedicated DMA, on-chip full-speed PHY and ULPI

  • 10/100 Ethernet MAC with dedicated DMA

  • CRC calculation unit

  • True random number generator

  • DMA Controller

  • Micro SD

  • 1x 10/100 Ethernet MAC

  • 1x 8 to 12-bit Parallel Camera interface

  • Micro USB for power and comms

  • 2x jumpers for bootloader selection

  • 2x16 FMSC LCD Interface

  • NRF24L01 socket

  • Dimensions: 85.1mm x 72.45mm

More information about STM32F407VE SOC can be found here:

Supported Features

The Zephyr black_f407ve 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

PWM

on-chip

pwm

USB

on-chip

usb

CAN

on-chip

CAN controller

SPI

on-chip

spi

Note

CAN feature requires CAN transceiver. Zephyr default configuration uses CAN_2 exclusively, as simultaneous use of CAN_1 and CAN_2 is not yet supported.

Other hardware features are not yet supported on Zephyr porting.

The default configuration can be found in the defconfig file:

boards/arm/black_f407_generic/black_f407ve_defconfig

Pin Mapping

BLACK_F407VE has 5 GPIO controllers. These controllers are responsible for pin muxing, input/output, pull-up, etc.

left pins right pins bottom and top pins

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

  • UART_1_TX : PB6

  • UART_1_RX : PB7

  • UART_2_TX : PA2

  • UART_2_RX : PA3

  • USER_PB : PA0

  • LD3 : PD13

  • LD4 : PD12

  • LD5 : PD14

  • LD6 : PD15

  • USB DM : PA11

  • USB DP : PA12

  • CAN1_RX : PD0

  • CAN1_TX : PD1

  • CAN2_RX : PB12

  • CAN2_TX : PB13

  • SPI1 MISO : PB4

  • SPI1 MOSI : PB5

  • SPI1 SCK : PB3

  • SPI1 Flash CS : PB0

  • SPI2 MISO : PC2

  • SPI2 MOSI : PC3

  • SPI2 SCK : PB10

System Clock

BLACK_F407VE 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 168MHz, driven by 8MHz high speed external clock.

Serial Port

BLACK_F407VE has up to 6 UARTs. The Zephyr console output is assigned to UART2. Default settings are 115200 8N1. Please note that ST-Link Virtual Com Port is not wired to chip serial port. In order to enable console output you should use a serial cable and connect it to UART2 pins (PA2/PA3).

Programming and Debugging

Applications for the black_f407ve board configuration can be built and flashed in the usual way (see Building an Application and Run an Application for more details).

Flashing

BLACK_F407VE board includes an ST-LINK/V2 embedded debug tool interface. This interface is supported by the openocd version included in Zephyr SDK.

Flashing an application to BLACK_F407VE

Here is an example for the Blinky application.

Run a serial host program to connect with your board:

$ minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0

Build and flash the application:

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b black_f407ve samples/basic/blinky
west flash

You should see user led “LD1” blinking.

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 black_f407ve samples/hello_world
west debug