README ====== This README discusses issues unique to NuttX configurations for the STMicro STM32F4 Discovery development board. Contents ======== - Development Environment - GNU Toolchain Options - IDEs - NuttX buildroot Toolchain - LEDs - PWM - UARTs - Timer Inputs/Outputs - FPU - STM32F4Discovery-specific Configuration Options - Configurations Development Environment ======================= Either Linux or Cygwin on Windows can be used for the development environment. The source has been built only using the GNU toolchain (see below). Other toolchains will likely cause problems. Testing was performed using the Cygwin environment because the Raisonance R-Link emulatator and some RIDE7 development tools were used and those tools works only under Windows. GNU Toolchain Options ===================== The NuttX make system has been modified to support the following different toolchain options. 1. The CodeSourcery GNU toolchain, 2. The Atollic Toolchain, 3. The devkitARM GNU toolchain, 4. Raisonance GNU toolchain, or 5. The NuttX buildroot Toolchain (see below). All testing has been conducted using the CodeSourcery toolchain for Windows. To use the Atollic, devkitARM, Raisonance GNU, or NuttX buildroot toolchain, you simply need to add one of the following configuration options to your .config (or defconfig) file: CONFIG_STM32_CODESOURCERYW=y : CodeSourcery under Windows CONFIG_STM32_CODESOURCERYL=y : CodeSourcery under Linux CONFIG_STM32_ATOLLIC=y : Atollic toolchain under Windows CONFIG_STM32_DEVKITARM=y : devkitARM under Windows CONFIG_STM32_RAISONANCE=y : Raisonance RIDE7 under Windows CONFIG_STM32_BUILDROOT=y : NuttX buildroot under Linux or Cygwin (default) If you change the default toolchain, then you may also have to modify the PATH in the setenv.h file if your make cannot find the tools. NOTE: the CodeSourcery (for Windows), Atollic, devkitARM, and Raisonance toolchains are Windows native toolchains. The CodeSourcey (for Linux) and NuttX buildroot toolchains are Cygwin and/or Linux native toolchains. There are several limitations to using a Windows based toolchain in a Cygwin environment. The three biggest are: 1. The Windows toolchain cannot follow Cygwin paths. Path conversions are performed automatically in the Cygwin makefiles using the 'cygpath' utility but you might easily find some new path problems. If so, check out 'cygpath -w' 2. Windows toolchains cannot follow Cygwin symbolic links. Many symbolic links are used in Nuttx (e.g., include/arch). The make system works around these problems for the Windows tools by copying directories instead of linking them. But this can also cause some confusion for you: For example, you may edit a file in a "linked" directory and find that your changes had no effect. That is because you are building the copy of the file in the "fake" symbolic directory. If you use a Windows toolchain, you should get in the habit of making like this: make clean_context all An alias in your .bashrc file might make that less painful. 3. Dependencies are not made when using Windows versions of the GCC. This is because the dependencies are generated using Windows pathes which do not work with the Cygwin make. Support has been added for making dependencies with the windows-native toolchains. That support can be enabled by modifying your Make.defs file as follows: - MKDEP = $(TOPDIR)/tools/mknulldeps.sh + MKDEP = $(TOPDIR)/tools/mkdeps.sh --winpaths "$(TOPDIR)" If you have problems with the dependency build (for example, if you are not building on C:), then you may need to modify tools/mkdeps.sh NOTE 1: The CodeSourcery toolchain (2009q1) does not work with default optimization level of -Os (See Make.defs). It will work with -O0, -O1, or -O2, but not with -Os. NOTE 2: The free, "Lite" version of the Atollic toolchain does not support C++ nor does it support ar, nm, objdump, or objdcopy. If you use the Atollic "Lite" toolchain, you will have to set: CONFIG_HAVE_CXX=n In order to compile successfully. Otherwise, you will get errors like: "C++ Compiler only available in TrueSTUDIO Professional" The make may then fail in some of the post link processing because of some of the other missing tools. The Make.defs file replaces the ar and nm with the default system x86 tool versions and these seem to work okay. Disable all of the following to avoid using objcopy: CONFIG_RRLOAD_BINARY=n CONFIG_INTELHEX_BINARY=n CONFIG_MOTOROLA_SREC=n CONFIG_RAW_BINARY=n NOTE 3: The devkitARM toolchain includes a version of MSYS make. Make sure that the paths to Cygwin's /bin and /usr/bin directories appear BEFORE the devkitARM path or will get the wrong version of make. IDEs ==== NuttX is built using command-line make. It can be used with an IDE, but some effort will be required to create the project. Makefile Build -------------- Under Eclipse, it is pretty easy to set up an "empty makefile project" and simply use the NuttX makefile to build the system. That is almost for free under Linux. Under Windows, you will need to set up the "Cygwin GCC" empty makefile project in order to work with Windows (Google for "Eclipse Cygwin" - there is a lot of help on the internet). Native Build ------------ Here are a few tips before you start that effort: 1) Select the toolchain that you will be using in your .config file 2) Start the NuttX build at least one time from the Cygwin command line before trying to create your project. This is necessary to create certain auto-generated files and directories that will be needed. 3) Set up include pathes: You will need include/, arch/arm/src/stm32, arch/arm/src/common, arch/arm/src/armv7-m, and sched/. 4) All assembly files need to have the definition option -D __ASSEMBLY__ on the command line. Startup files will probably cause you some headaches. The NuttX startup file is arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_vectors.S. With RIDE, I have to build NuttX one time from the Cygwin command line in order to obtain the pre-built startup object needed by RIDE. NuttX buildroot Toolchain ========================= A GNU GCC-based toolchain is assumed. The files */setenv.sh should be modified to point to the correct path to the Cortex-M3 GCC toolchain (if different from the default in your PATH variable). If you have no Cortex-M3 toolchain, one can be downloaded from the NuttX SourceForge download site (https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=189573). This GNU toolchain builds and executes in the Linux or Cygwin environment. 1. You must have already configured Nuttx in /nuttx. cd tools ./configure.sh STM32F4Discovery/ 2. Download the latest buildroot package into 3. unpack the buildroot tarball. The resulting directory may have versioning information on it like buildroot-x.y.z. If so, rename /buildroot-x.y.z to /buildroot. 4. cd /buildroot 5. cp configs/cortexm3-defconfig-4.3.3 .config 6. make oldconfig 7. make 8. Edit setenv.h, if necessary, so that the PATH variable includes the path to the newly built binaries. See the file configs/README.txt in the buildroot source tree. That has more detailed PLUS some special instructions that you will need to follow if you are building a Cortex-M3 toolchain for Cygwin under Windows. LEDs ==== The STM32F4Discovery board has four LEDs; green, organge, red and blue on the board.. These LEDs are not used by the board port unless CONFIG_ARCH_LEDS is defined. In that case, the usage by the board port is defined in include/board.h and src/up_leds.c. The LEDs are used to encode OS-related events as follows: SYMBOL Meaning LED1* LED2 LED3 LED4 green orange red blue ------------------- ----------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------ LED_STARTED NuttX has been started ON OFF OFF OFF LED_HEAPALLOCATE Heap has been allocated OFF ON OFF OFF LED_IRQSENABLED Interrupts enabled ON ON OFF OFF LED_STACKCREATED Idle stack created OFF OFF ON OFF LED_INIRQ In an interrupt** ON N/C N/C OFF LED_SIGNAL In a signal handler*** N/C ON N/C OFF LED_ASSERTION An assertion failed ON ON N/C OFF LED_PANIC The system has crashed N/C N/C N/C ON LED_IDLE STM32 is is sleep mode (Optional, not used) * If LED1, LED2, LED3 are statically on, then NuttX probably failed to boot and these LEDs will give you some indication of where the failure was ** The normal state is LED3 ON and LED1 faintly glowing. This faint glow is because of timer interupts that result in the LED being illuminated on a small proportion of the time. *** LED2 may also flicker normally if signals are processed. PWM === The STM32F4Discovery has no real on-board PWM devices, but the board can be configured to output a pulse train using TIM4 CH2 on PD3. This pin is available next to the audio jack. UART ==== UART/USART PINS --------------- USART1 CK PA8 CTS PA11* RTS PA12* RX PA10*, PB7 TX PA9*, PB6* USART2 CK PA4*, PD7 CTS PA0*, PD3 RTS PA1, PD4* RX PA3, PD6 TX PA2, PD5* USART3 CK PB12, PC12*, PD10 CTS PB13, PD11 RTS PB14, PD12* RX PB11, PC11, PD9 TX PB10*, PC10*, PD8 UART4 RX PA1, PC11 TX PA0*, PC10* UART5 RX PD2 TX PC12* USART6 CK PC8, PG7** CTS PG13**, PG15** RTS PG12**, PG8** RX PC7*, PG9** TX PC6, PG14** * Indicates pins that have other on-board functins and should be used only with care (See table 5 in the STM32F4Discovery User Guide). The rest are free I/O pins. ** Port G pins are not supported by the MCU Default USART/UART Configuration -------------------------------- USART2 is enabled in all configurations (see */defconfig). RX and TX are configured on pins PA3 and PA2, respectively (see include/board.h). Timer Inputs/Outputs ==================== TIM1 CH1 PA8, PE9 CH2 PA9*, PE11 CH3 PA10*, PE13 CH4 PA11*, PE14 TIM2 CH1 PA0*, PA15, PA5* CH2 PA1, PB3* CH3 PA2, PB10* CH4 PA3, PB11 TIM3 CH1 PA6*, PB4, PC6 CH2 PA7*, PB5, PC7* CH3 PB0, PC8 CH4 PB1, PC9 TIM4 CH1 PB6*, PD12* CH2 PB7, PD13* CH3 PB8, PD14* CH4 PB9*, PD15* TIM5 CH1 PA0*, PH10** CH2 PA1, PH11** CH3 PA2, PH12** CH4 PA3, PI0 TIM8 CH1 PC6, PI5 CH2 PC7*, PI6 CH3 PC8, PI7 CH4 PC9, PI2 TIM9 CH1 PA2, PE5 CH2 PA3, PE6 TIM10 CH1 PB8, PF6 TIM11 CH1 PB9*, PF7 TIM12 CH1 PH6**, PB14 CH2 PC15, PH9** TIM13 CH1 PA6*, PF8 TIM14 CH1 PA7*, PF9 * Indicates pins that have other on-board functins and should be used only with care (See table 5 in the STM32F4Discovery User Guide). The rest are free I/O pins. ** Port H pins are not supported by the MCU Quadrature Encode Timer Inputs ------------------------------ If enabled (by setting CONFIG_QENCODER=y), then quadrature encoder will user TIM2 (see nsh/defconfig) and input pins PA15, and PA1 for CH1 and CH2, respectively (see include board.h). FPU === FPU Configuration Options ------------------------- There are two version of the FPU support built into the STM32 port. 1. Lazy Floating Point Register Save. This is an untested implementation that saves and restores FPU registers only on context switches. This means: (1) floating point registers are not stored on each context switch and, hence, possibly better interrupt performance. But, (2) since floating point registers are not saved, you cannot use floating point operations within interrupt handlers. This logic can be enabled by simply adding the following to your .config file: CONFIG_ARCH_FPU=y 2. Non-Lazy Floating Point Register Save Mike Smith has contributed an extensive re-write of the ARMv7-M exception handling logic. This includes verified support for the FPU. These changes have not yet been incorporated into the mainline and are still considered experimental. These FPU logic can be enabled with: CONFIG_ARCH_FPU=y CONFIG_ARMV7M_CMNVECTOR=y You will probably also changes to the ld.script in if this option is selected. This should work: -ENTRY(_stext) +ENTRY(__start) /* Treat __start as the anchor for dead code stripping */ +EXTERN(_vectors) /* Force the vectors to be included in the output */ CFLAGS ------ To used the FPU, you will also have to modify the CFLAGS to enable compiler support for the ARMv7-M FPU. As of this writing, there are not many GCC toolchains that will support the ARMv7-M FPU. As a minimum, you will need to CFLAG options to (1) enable hardware floating point code generation, and to (2) select the FPU implementation. You might try something like the following in the Make.defs file: ARCHCPUFLAGS = -mcpu=cortex-m4 -mthumb -march=armv7e-m -mfpu=fpv4-sp-d16 -mfloat-abi=hard STM32F4Discovery-specific Configuration Options =============================================== CONFIG_ARCH - Identifies the arch/ subdirectory. This should be set to: CONFIG_ARCH=arm CONFIG_ARCH_family - For use in C code: CONFIG_ARCH_ARM=y CONFIG_ARCH_architecture - For use in C code: CONFIG_ARCH_CORTEXM4=y CONFIG_ARCH_CHIP - Identifies the arch/*/chip subdirectory CONFIG_ARCH_CHIP=stm32 CONFIG_ARCH_CHIP_name - For use in C code to identify the exact chip: CONFIG_ARCH_CHIP_STM32F407IG=y CONFIG_ARCH_BOARD_STM32_CUSTOM_CLOCKCONFIG - Enables special STM32 clock configuration features. CONFIG_ARCH_BOARD_STM32_CUSTOM_CLOCKCONFIG=n CONFIG_ARCH_BOARD - Identifies the configs subdirectory and hence, the board that supports the particular chip or SoC. CONFIG_ARCH_BOARD=STM32F4Discovery (for the STM32F4Discovery development board) CONFIG_ARCH_BOARD_name - For use in C code CONFIG_ARCH_BOARD_STM32F4_DISCOVERY=y CONFIG_ARCH_LOOPSPERMSEC - Must be calibrated for correct operation of delay loops CONFIG_ENDIAN_BIG - define if big endian (default is little endian) CONFIG_DRAM_SIZE - Describes the installed DRAM (SRAM in this case): CONFIG_DRAM_SIZE=0x00010000 (64Kb) CONFIG_DRAM_START - The start address of installed DRAM CONFIG_DRAM_START=0x20000000 CONFIG_DRAM_END - Last address+1 of installed RAM CONFIG_DRAM_END=(CONFIG_DRAM_START+CONFIG_DRAM_SIZE) CONFIG_ARCH_IRQPRIO - The STM3240xxx supports interrupt prioritization CONFIG_ARCH_IRQPRIO=y CONFIG_ARCH_FPU - The STM3240xxx supports a floating point unit (FPU) CONFIG_ARCH_FPU=y CONFIG_ARCH_LEDS - Use LEDs to show state. Unique to boards that have LEDs CONFIG_ARCH_INTERRUPTSTACK - This architecture supports an interrupt stack. If defined, this symbol is the size of the interrupt stack in bytes. If not defined, the user task stacks will be used during interrupt handling. CONFIG_ARCH_STACKDUMP - Do stack dumps after assertions CONFIG_ARCH_LEDS - Use LEDs to show state. Unique to board architecture. CONFIG_ARCH_CALIBRATION - Enables some build in instrumentation that cause a 100 second delay during boot-up. This 100 second delay serves no purpose other than it allows you to calibratre CONFIG_ARCH_LOOPSPERMSEC. You simply use a stop watch to measure the 100 second delay then adjust CONFIG_ARCH_LOOPSPERMSEC until the delay actually is 100 seconds. Individual subsystems can be enabled: AHB1 ---- CONFIG_STM32_CRC CONFIG_STM32_BKPSRAM CONFIG_STM32_CCMDATARAM CONFIG_STM32_DMA1 CONFIG_STM32_DMA2 CONFIG_STM32_ETHMAC CONFIG_STM32_OTGHS AHB2 ---- CONFIG_STM32_DCMI CONFIG_STM32_CRYP CONFIG_STM32_HASH CONFIG_STM32_RNG CONFIG_STM32_OTGFS AHB3 ---- CONFIG_STM32_FSMC APB1 ---- CONFIG_STM32_TIM2 CONFIG_STM32_TIM3 CONFIG_STM32_TIM4 CONFIG_STM32_TIM5 CONFIG_STM32_TIM6 CONFIG_STM32_TIM7 CONFIG_STM32_TIM12 CONFIG_STM32_TIM13 CONFIG_STM32_TIM14 CONFIG_STM32_WWDG CONFIG_STM32_SPI2 CONFIG_STM32_SPI3 CONFIG_STM32_USART2 CONFIG_STM32_USART3 CONFIG_STM32_UART4 CONFIG_STM32_UART5 CONFIG_STM32_I2C1 CONFIG_STM32_I2C2 CONFIG_STM32_I2C3 CONFIG_STM32_CAN1 CONFIG_STM32_CAN2 CONFIG_STM32_DAC1 CONFIG_STM32_DAC2 CONFIG_STM32_PWR -- Required for RTC APB2 ---- CONFIG_STM32_TIM1 CONFIG_STM32_TIM8 CONFIG_STM32_USART1 CONFIG_STM32_USART6 CONFIG_STM32_ADC1 CONFIG_STM32_ADC2 CONFIG_STM32_ADC3 CONFIG_STM32_SDIO CONFIG_STM32_SPI1 CONFIG_STM32_SYSCFG CONFIG_STM32_TIM9 CONFIG_STM32_TIM10 CONFIG_STM32_TIM11 Timer and I2C devices may need to the following to force power to be applied unconditionally at power up. (Otherwise, the device is powered when it is initialized). CONFIG_STM32_FORCEPOWER Timer devices may be used for different purposes. One special purpose is to generate modulated outputs for such things as motor control. If CONFIG_STM32_TIMn is defined (as above) then the following may also be defined to indicate that the timer is intended to be used for pulsed output modulation, ADC conversion, or DAC conversion. Note that ADC/DAC require two definition: Not only do you have to assign the timer (n) for used by the ADC or DAC, but then you also have to configure which ADC or DAC (m) it is assigned to. CONFIG_STM32_TIMn_PWM Reserve timer n for use by PWM, n=1,..,14 CONFIG_STM32_TIMn_ADC Reserve timer n for use by ADC, n=1,..,14 CONFIG_STM32_TIMn_ADCm Reserve timer n to trigger ADCm, n=1,..,14, m=1,..,3 CONFIG_STM32_TIMn_DAC Reserve timer n for use by DAC, n=1,..,14 CONFIG_STM32_TIMn_DACm Reserve timer n to trigger DACm, n=1,..,14, m=1,..,2 For each timer that is enabled for PWM usage, we need the following additional configuration settings: CONFIG_STM32_TIMx_CHANNEL - Specifies the timer output channel {1,..,4} NOTE: The STM32 timers are each capable of generating different signals on each of the four channels with different duty cycles. That capability is not supported by this driver: Only one output channel per timer. JTAG Enable settings (by default only SW-DP is enabled): CONFIG_STM32_JTAG_FULL_ENABLE - Enables full SWJ (JTAG-DP + SW-DP) CONFIG_STM32_JTAG_NOJNTRST_ENABLE - Enables full SWJ (JTAG-DP + SW-DP) but without JNTRST. CONFIG_STM32_JTAG_SW_ENABLE - Set JTAG-DP disabled and SW-DP enabled STM3240xxx specific device driver settings CONFIG_U[S]ARTn_SERIAL_CONSOLE - selects the USARTn (n=1,2,3) or UART m (m=4,5) for the console and ttys0 (default is the USART1). CONFIG_U[S]ARTn_RXBUFSIZE - Characters are buffered as received. This specific the size of the receive buffer CONFIG_U[S]ARTn_TXBUFSIZE - Characters are buffered before being sent. This specific the size of the transmit buffer CONFIG_U[S]ARTn_BAUD - The configure BAUD of the UART. Must be CONFIG_U[S]ARTn_BITS - The number of bits. Must be either 7 or 8. CONFIG_U[S]ARTn_PARTIY - 0=no parity, 1=odd parity, 2=even parity CONFIG_U[S]ARTn_2STOP - Two stop bits STM3240xxx CAN Configuration CONFIG_CAN - Enables CAN support (one or both of CONFIG_STM32_CAN1 or CONFIG_STM32_CAN2 must also be defined) CONFIG_CAN_EXTID - Enables support for the 29-bit extended ID. Default Standard 11-bit IDs. CONFIG_CAN_FIFOSIZE - The size of the circular buffer of CAN messages. Default: 8 CONFIG_CAN_NPENDINGRTR - The size of the list of pending RTR requests. Default: 4 CONFIG_CAN_LOOPBACK - A CAN driver may or may not support a loopback mode for testing. The STM32 CAN driver does support loopback mode. CONFIG_CAN1_BAUD - CAN1 BAUD rate. Required if CONFIG_STM32_CAN1 is defined. CONFIG_CAN2_BAUD - CAN1 BAUD rate. Required if CONFIG_STM32_CAN2 is defined. CONFIG_CAN_TSEG1 - The number of CAN time quanta in segment 1. Default: 6 CONFIG_CAN_TSEG2 - the number of CAN time quanta in segment 2. Default: 7 CONFIG_CAN_REGDEBUG - If CONFIG_DEBUG is set, this will generate an dump of all CAN registers. STM3240xxx SPI Configuration CONFIG_STM32_SPI_INTERRUPTS - Select to enable interrupt driven SPI support. Non-interrupt-driven, poll-waiting is recommended if the interrupt rate would be to high in the interrupt driven case. CONFIG_STM32_SPI_DMA - Use DMA to improve SPI transfer performance. Cannot be used with CONFIG_STM32_SPI_INTERRUPT. STM3240xxx DMA Configuration CONFIG_SDIO_DMA - Support DMA data transfers. Requires CONFIG_STM32_SDIO and CONFIG_STM32_DMA2. CONFIG_SDIO_PRI - Select SDIO interrupt prority. Default: 128 CONFIG_SDIO_DMAPRIO - Select SDIO DMA interrupt priority. Default: Medium CONFIG_SDIO_WIDTH_D1_ONLY - Select 1-bit transfer mode. Default: 4-bit transfer mode. Configurations ============== Each STM32F4Discovery configuration is maintained in a sudirectory and can be selected as follow: cd tools ./configure.sh STM32F4Discovery/ cd - . ./setenv.sh Where is one of the following: ostest: ------ This configuration directory, performs a simple OS test using examples/ostest. By default, this project assumes that you are using the DFU bootloader. CONFIG_STM32_CODESOURCERYW=y : CodeSourcery under Windows nsh: --- Configures the NuttShell (nsh) located at apps/examples/nsh. The Configuration enables both the serial and telnet NSH interfaces. CONFIG_STM32_CODESOURCERYL=y : CodeSourcery under Linux / Mac OS X NOTES: 1. This example supports the PWM test (apps/examples/pwm) but this must be manually enabled by selecting: CONFIG_PWM=y : Enable the generic PWM infrastructure CONFIG_STM32_TIM4=y : Enable TIM4 CONFIG_STM32_TIM4_PWM=y : Use TIM4 to generate PWM output See also apps/examples/README.txt Special PWM-only debug options: CONFIG_DEBUG_PWM 2. This example supports the Quadrature Encode test (apps/examples/qencoder) but this must be manually enabled by selecting: CONFIG_QENCODER=y : Enable the generic Quadrature Encoder infrastructure CONFIG_STM32_TIM2=y : Enable TIM2 CONFIG_STM32_TIM2_QE=y : Use TIM2 as the quadrature encoder See also apps/examples/README.txt Special PWM-only debug options: CONFIG_DEBUG_QENCODER