GigaDevice GD32E507Z-EVAL

Overview

The GD32E507Z-EVAL board is a hardware platform that enables prototyping on GD32E507ZE Cortex-M33 High Performance MCU.

The GD32E507ZE features a single-core ARM Cortex-M33 MCU which can run up to 180 MHz with flash accesses zero wait states, 512kiB of Flash, 128kiB of SRAM and 112 GPIOs.

Hardware

GD32E507ZET6 MCU
AT24C02C 2Kb EEPROM
GD25Q16 16Mbit SPI and QSPI NOR Flash
GD9FU1G8F2A 1Gbit NAND Flash
Micron MT48LC16M16A2P-6AIT 256Mbit SDRAM
4 x User LEDs
1 x Joystick (L/R/U/D/C)
1 x USART (connected to USB VCOM at J1 connector)
1 x POT connected to an ADC input
Headphone interface
USB FS connector
1 x CAN (includes SN65HVD230 PHY)
Ethernet Interface
3.2” RGB-LCD (320x240)
GD-Link on board programmer
J-Link/JTAG connector

For more information about the GD32E507 SoC and GD32E507Z-EVAL board:

Supported Features

The board configuration supports the following hardware features:

Peripheral	Kconfig option	Devicetree compatible
EXTI	`CONFIG_GD32_EXTI`	`gd,gd32-exti`
GPIO	`CONFIG_GPIO`	`gd,gd32-gpio`
NVIC	N/A	`arm,v8m-nvic`
PWM	`CONFIG_PWM`	`gd,gd32-pwm`
SYSTICK	N/A	N/A
USART	`CONFIG_SERIAL`	`gd,gd32-usart`

Serial Port

The GD32E507Z-EVAL board has one serial communication port. The default port is USART0 with TX connected at PA9 and RX at PA10. USART0 is exposed as a virtual COM port via the J1 USB connector.

Programming and Debugging

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

JP3/4: Select 2-3 for both (boot from user memory)

Using GD-Link or J-Link

The board comes with an embedded GD-Link programmer. It can be used with pyOCD provided you install the necessary CMSIS-Pack:

pyocd pack install gd32e507ze

J-Link can also be used to program the board using the JTAG interface exposed in the JP2 header.

Build the Zephyr kernel and the Hello World sample application:
```
west build -b gd32e507z_eval 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 gd32e507z_eval samples/hello_world
west flash
```
You should see “Hello World! gd32e507z_eval” in your terminal.

To debug an image:

west build -b gd32e507z_eval samples/hello_world
west debug