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STM32F3Discovery

Support for the STM32F3Discovery board

Support for the STM32F3Discovery board

Overview

The STM32F3Discovery is cheap evaluation board designed by ST for pushing the STM32F3 microcontroller to a broad audience. It features an STM32F303VC microcontroller with 48Kb of RAM and 256Kb flash memory running with up to 72MHz. Additionally it provides USB host capabilities, 8 LEDs and sensors for a 9-degree of freedom initial measurement unit (3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyro and 3-axis magnetometer).

Hardware

STM32F3discovery image

MCU

MCUSTM32F303VC
FamilyARM Cortex-M4
VendorST Microelectronics
RAM48Kb (40Kb RAM + 8Kb CCM RAM)
Flash256Kb
Frequencyup to 72MHz (using the on-board 8MHz Oszillator of the ST-Link)
FPUyes
Timers10 (9x 16-bit, 1x 32-bit [TIM2])
ADCs4x 12-bit
UARTs5
SPIs3
I2Cs2
Vcc2.0V - 3.6V
DatasheetDatasheet
Reference ManualReference Manual
Programming ManualProgramming Manual
Board ManualBoard Manual

RIOT static pin mapping

please refer to this

  • document for the pin mapping as implemenented in boards/stm32f3discovery/include/periph_conf.h

User Interface

2 Buttons:

NAMEUSERRESET
PinPA0 (IN)NRST

8 LEDs:

NAMELD3LD4LD5LD6LD7LD8LD9LD10
Colorredblueorangegreengreenorangebluered
PinPE9PE8PE10PE15PE11PE14PE12PE13

E-Compass / Accelerometer

The board has an on-board MEMS-chip that is an integrated accelerometer and e-compass.

SensorLSM303DLHC
TypeAccelerometer and magnetometer
VendorST Microelectronics
DatasheetDatasheet
Connected toI2C_0
Pin Config:
DeviceI2C1
SCLPB6 (OUT, I2C1_SCL)
SDAPB7 (OUT, I2C1_SDA)
DRDYPE2 (IN)
INT1PE4 (IN)
INT2PE5 (IN)

Gyroscope

An 3-axis gyroscope is soldered on the board.

SensorL3GD20/I3G4250D [1]
TypeGyroscope
VendorST Microelectronics
Datasheet L3GD20Datasheet
Datasheet I3G4250DDatasheet
Connected toSPI_0
Pin Config:
DeviceSPI1
SCKPA5 (OUT, SPI1_SCK)
MISOPA6 (IN, SPI1_MISO)
MOSIPA7 (OUT, SPI1_MOSI)
CSPE3 (OUT)
INT1PE0 (IN)
INT2/DRDYPE1 (IN)

[1] L3GD20 (up to rev. D01), IG34250D (from rev. E02) The driver detects automatically which sensor variant is on the board.

Implementation Status

DeviceIDSupportedComments
MCUSTM23F303VCpartlyEnergy saving modes not fully utilized
Low-level driverGPIOyes
PWMyes
UARTfull
I2Cnoin progress
SPInoin progress
USBno
Timerfull
Inpute Captureno
AccelerometerLSM303DLHCnoplanned
MagnetometerLSM303DLHCnoplanned
GyroscopeL3GD20/I3G4250Dyes

Flashing the Board

A detailed description about the flashing process can be found on the guides page. The board name for the STM32F3discovery is stm32f3discovery.

Using UART

  1. connect your usb tty to: RX=PA10 TX=PA9 and GND=GND
    • PA10 is connected with TX on the UART converter
    • PA9 is connected with RX on the UART converter
  2. done