ST Nucleo F303RE

Overview

The Nucleo F303RE board features an ARM Cortex-M4 based STM32F303RE mixed-signal MCU with FPU and DSP instructions capable of running at 72 MHz. Here are some highlights of the Nucleo F303RE board:

  • STM32 microcontroller in LQFP64 package

  • LSE crystal: 32.768 kHz crystal oscillator

  • Two types of extension resources:

    • Arduino* Uno V3 connectors

    • ST morpho extension pin headers for full access to all STM32 I/Os

  • On-board ST-LINK/V2-1 debugger/programmer with SWD connector

  • Flexible board power supply:

    • 5 V from ST-LINK/V2-1 USB VBUS

    • External power sources: 3.3 V and 7 - 12 V on ST Zio or ST morpho connectors, 5 V on ST morpho connector

  • One user LED

  • Two push-buttons: USER and RESET

Nucleo F303RE

More information about the board can be found at the Nucleo F303RE website, and in the STM32 Nucleo-64 board User Manual.

Hardware

The Nucleo F303RE provides the following hardware components:

  • STM32F303RET6 in QFP64 package

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

  • 72 MHz max CPU frequency

  • VDD from 2.0 V to 3.6 V

  • 512 KB Flash

  • 64 + 16 KB SRAM

  • RTC

  • Advanced-control Timer

  • General Purpose Timers (4)

  • Basic Timer

  • Watchdog Timers (2)

  • PWM channels (18)

  • SPI/I2S (2)

  • I2C (3)

  • USART/UART (3/3)

  • USB 2.0 FS with on-chip PHY

  • CAN (2)

  • GPIO with external interrupt capability

  • DMA channels (12)

  • Capacitive sensing channels (18)

  • 12-bit ADC with 40 channels (4)

  • 12-bit D/A converter with two channels

  • Analog comparator (7)

  • Op amp (4)

  • Capacitive sensing 24 channels

More information about the STM32F303RE can be found here:

Supported Features

The Zephyr nucleo_f303re 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

RTC

on-chip

rtc

I2C

on-chip

i2c

SPI

on-chip

spi

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

The default configuration can be found in boards/st/nucleo_f303re/nucleo_f303re_defconfig

Connections and IOs

The Nucleo F303RE Board has 5 GPIO controllers. These controllers are responsible for pin muxing, input/output, pull-up, etc.

Board connectors:

Nucleo F303RE connectors

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

The Nucleo F303RE board features an Arduino Uno V3 connector and a ST morpho connector. Board is configured as follows:

  • UART_2 TX/RX : PA2/PA3 (ST-Link Virtual Port Com)

  • USER_PB : PC13

  • LD2 : PA5

System Clock

The Nucleo F303RE System Clock can be driven by an internal or external oscillator, as well as by the main PLL clock. By default the System Clock is driven by the PLL clock at 72 MHz. The input to the PLL is an 8 MHz external clock supplied by the processor of the on-board ST-LINK/V2-1 debugger/programmer.

Serial Port

The Nucleo F303RE board has 2 UARTs. The Zephyr console output is assigned to UART2. Default settings are 115200 8N1.

Programming and Debugging

The Nucleo F303RE board includes an ST-LINK/V2-1 embedded debug tool interface.

Flashing

The board is configured to be flashed using west STM32CubeProgrammer runner, so its installation is required.

Alternatively, OpenOCD or JLink can also be used to flash the board using the --runner (or -r) option:

$ west flash --runner openocd
$ west flash --runner jlink