MikroE Clicker 2 for STM32

Overview

MikroE Clicker 2 for STM32 is a development board containing an STM32F407 microcontroller. It is equipped with two mikrobus sockets and furthermore has two headers for general signal break out. The board also has battery connection and a battery management unit on board. It can be powered either from a battery pack, such as a LiPo or from USB. The board is equipped with a 25MHz crystal as well as a 32.768kHz clock crystal.

Clicker 2 For STM32

Clicker 2 For STM32 (Credit: MikroElektronika d.o.o.)

Hardware

The Clicker 2 board contains the following connections:

  • Two MikroBUS connectors

  • Two headers with general connections

Furthermore the board contains two LEDs and two push buttons that are connected to the microcontroller.

Supported Features

The Zephyr MikroE Clicker 2 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

I2C

on-chip

i2c

SPI

on-chip

spi

ADC

on-chip

adc

USB

on-chip

usb

Other hardware features have not been enabled yet for this board.

The default configuration can be found in the defconfig file:

boards/arm/mikroe_clicker_2/mikroe_clicker_2_defconfig

Connections and IOs

The two mikroBUS interfaces are aliased in the device tree so that their peripherals can be accessed using mikrobus_N_INTERFACE so e.g. the spi on bus 2 can be found by the alias mikrobus_2_spi. The counting corresponds with the marking on the board.

For connections on the edge connectors, please refer to Clicker 2 for STM32 User Manual.

Programming and Debugging

Applications for the mikroe_clicker_2 board configuration can be built and flashed in the usual way (see Building an Application and Run an Application for more details).

Flashing

The initial state of the board is set to lock. When you flash, it will fail with the message:

Error: stm32x device protected

Unlocking with openocd makes it possible to flash.

$ openocd -f /usr/share/openocd/scripts/interface/stlink-v2.cfg \
    -f /usr/share/openocd/scripts/target/stm32f4x.cfg -c init\
    -c "reset halt" -c "stm32f4x unlock 0" -c "reset run" -c shutdown

Here is an example for the Hello World application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b mikroe_clicker_2 samples/hello_world
west flash

You should see the following message on the console:

Hello World! mikroe_clicker_2

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 mikroe_clicker_2 samples/hello_world
west debug

References