NXP UCANS32K1SIC

Overview

NXP UCANS32K1SIC [1] is a CAN signal improvement capability (SIC) evaluation board designed for both automotive and industrial applications. The UCANS32K1SIC provides two CAN SIC interfaces and is based on the 32-bit Arm Cortex-M4F NXP S32K146 [2] microcontroller.

Hardware

NXP S32K146
- Arm Cortex-M4F @ up to 112 Mhz
- 1 MB Flash
- 128 KB SRAM
- up to 127 I/Os
- 3x FlexCAN with 2x FD
- eDMA, 12-bit ADC, MPU, ECC and more.
Interfaces:
- DCD-LZ debug interface with SWD + Console / UART
- Dual CAN FD PHYs with dual connectors for daisy chain operation
- JST-GH DroneCode compliant standard connectors and I/O headers
- user RGB LED and button.

More information about the hardware and design resources can be found at NXP UCANS32K1SIC [1] website.

Supported Features

The ucans32k1sic board configuration supports the following hardware features:

Interface	Controller	Driver/Component
SYSMPU	on-chip	mpu
PORT	on-chip	pinctrl
GPIO	on-chip	gpio
LPUART	on-chip	serial
LPI2C	on-chip	i2c
LPSPI	on-chip	spi
FTM	on-chip	pwm
FlexCAN	on-chip	can
Watchdog	on-chip	watchdog
RTC	on-chip	counter
ADC	on-chip	adc

The default configuration can be found in the Kconfig file boards/nxp/ucans32k1sic/ucans32k1sic_defconfig.

Connections and IOs

This board has 5 GPIO ports named from gpioa to gpioe.

Pin control can be further configured from your application overlay by adding children nodes with the desired pinmux configuration to the singleton node pinctrl. Supported properties are described in dts/bindings/pinctrl/nxp,kinetis-pinctrl.yaml.

LEDs

The UCANS32K1SIC board has one user RGB LED that can be used either as a GPIO LED or as a PWM LED.

RGB LED as GPIO LED
Devicetree node	Devicetree alias	Label	Pin
led1_red	led0	LED1_RGB_RED	PTD15
led1_green	led1	LED1_RGB_GREEN	PTD16
led1_blue	led2	LED1_RGB_BLUE	PTD0

RGB LED as PWM LED
Devicetree node	Devicetree alias	Label	Pin
led1_red_pwm	pwm-led0 / red-pwm-led	LED1_RGB_RED_PWM	PTD15 / FTM0_CH0
led1_green_pwm	pwm-led1 / green-pwm-led	LED1_RGB_GREEN_PWM	PTD16 / FTM0_CH1
led1_blue_pwm	pwm-led2 / blue-pwm-led	LED1_RGB_BLUE_PWM	PTD0 / FTM0_CH2

The user can control the LEDs in any way. An output of 0 illuminates the LED.

Buttons

The UCANS32K1SIC board has one user button:

Devicetree node	Label	Pin
sw0 / button_3	SW3	PTD15

Serial Console

The serial console is provided via lpuart1 on the 7-pin DCD-LZ debug connector P6.

Connector	Pin	Pin Function
P6.2	PTC7	LPUART1_TX
P6.3	PTC6	LPUART1_RX

System Clock

The Arm Cortex-M4F core is configured to run at 80 MHz (RUN mode).

Programming and Debugging

Applications for the ucans32k1sic board can be built in the usual way as documented in Building an Application.

This board configuration supports Lauterbach TRACE32 [3] and SEGGER J-Link [4] West runners for flashing and debugging applications. Follow the steps described in Lauterbach TRACE32 Debug Host Tools and J-Link Debug Host Tools, to setup the flash and debug host tools for these runners, respectively. The default runner is J-Link.

Flashing

Run the west flash command to flash the application using SEGGER J-Link. Alternatively, run west flash -r trace32 to use Lauterbach TRACE32.

The Lauterbach TRACE32 runner supports additional options that can be passed through command line:

west flash -r trace32 --startup-args elfFile=<elf_path> loadTo=<flash/sram>
   eraseFlash=<yes/no> verifyFlash=<yes/no>

Where:

<elf_path> is the path to the Zephyr application ELF in the output directory
loadTo=flash loads the application to the SoC internal program flash (CONFIG_XIP must be set), and loadTo=sram load the application to SRAM. The default is flash.
eraseFlash=yes erases the whole content of SoC internal flash before the application is downloaded to either Flash or SRAM. This routine takes time to execute. The default is no.
verifyFlash=yes verify the SoC internal flash content after programming (use together with loadTo=flash). The default is no.

For example, to erase and verify flash content:

west flash -r trace32 --startup-args elfFile=build/zephyr/zephyr.elf loadTo=flash eraseFlash=yes verifyFlash=yes

Debugging

Run the west debug command to start a GDB session using SEGGER J-Link. Alternatively, run west debug -r trace32 to launch the Lauterbach TRACE32 software debugging interface.