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STM32L4R9I-DISCO Setup Instructions

This topic helps you setup the development environment for STM's STM32L4R9I-Disco.

Board features

  • STM32L4R9AII6 MCU featuring ARM® Cortex®-M4, 2-MBytes Flash, 640-kbytes RAM
  • 1.2” 390x390 round Touch Display
  • 16-Mbit PSRAM memory
  • 512-Mbit Octo-SPI Flash memory

Setting up development environment

  • Ensure that the common STM prerequisites are met.
  • Install CubeL4 SDK 1.15.1 and create the STM32Cube_FW_L4_SDK_PATH environment variable (Download)
    • Download STMCubeL4 1.15.0 and Patch_CubeL4 1.15.1, and run them in that order
    • Create the STM32Cube_FW_L4_SDK_PATH environment variable and set its value to:
      <STM32_CUBE_L4_INSTALL_PATH>\STM32Cube_FW_L4_V1.15.0

      where, <STM32_CUBE_L4_INSTALL_PATH> points to the CubeL4 SDK install directory.

Prebuilt demos and examples

The package for STM32L4R9I_DISCO board comes with a prebuilt watch demo binary. You can find it in the demos_images directory.

See Flashing Instructions for ST boards, for information about flashing the device.

For this board, select MX25LM51245G_STM32L4R9I-DISCO as the external loader.

Demos and examples source code

Qt for MCUs provides the source code of several demos and examples. You can modify, build, and flash custom binaries onto the target device.

Source code for supported demos and examples is organized in the following directory structure:

Note: Demos or examples that are highlighted in bold are the only ones supported on this board.

Building applications with prebuilt Qt Quick Ultralite libraries

The following example builds the watch demo for this board:

cd %Qul_DIR%\demos\watch
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=%Qul_DIR%\lib\cmake\Qul\toolchain\armgcc.cmake -DQUL_PLATFORM=STM32L4R9I-DISCOVERY
cmake --build .

Once you have successfully built the watch demo, you can flash it from command line:

cmake --build . --target flash_watch

The same procedure applies to any other application.

Note: By default, the asset data for application is copied to RAM on application startup. In order to keep resources in external flash, and not load it to RAM on startup, use the QUL_COPY_TO_RAM cmake option with the value Never when adding assets to the application with qul_add_resource.

Building Qt Quick Ultralite

If your license provides access to the Qt Quick Ultralite sources, build it with all of supported demos/examples. Run the following commands from the terminal window:

cd %Qul_DIR%
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=..\lib\cmake\Qul\toolchain\armgcc.cmake -DQUL_GENERATORS=..\lib\cmake\Qul\QulGenerators.cmake -DQUL_PLATFORM=STM32L4R9I-DISCOVERY

Once Qt Quick Ultralite is built successfully, you can flash the supported demos/examples from command line.

cmake --build . --target flash_<DEMO_OR_EXAMPLE_NAME>

Where, DEMO_OR_EXAMPLE_NAME is the name of a supported demo/example.

Building applications using a custom built Qt Quick Ultralite

This section describes how to build an application, using a custom Qt Quick Ultralite build.

  • First, you must set up the development environment as described earlier.
  • Build Qt Quick Ultralite from the modified sources and install it to a custom location.
    mkdir some\path\custom_builds\qul
cd some\path\custom_builds\qul

mkdir qul-build
cd qul-build

cmake <PATH_TO_INSTALLED_QT_SDK>\QtMCUs\<version> \
      -G "Ninja" \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=some\path\custom_builds\qul \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
      -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=<PATH_TO_INSTALLED_QT_SDK>\QtMCUs\<version>\lib\cmake\Qul\toolchain\armgcc.cmake \
      -DQUL_PLATFORM=<PLATFORM_NAME> \
      -DQUL_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
      -DQUL_BUILD_DEMOS=OFF \
      -DQUL_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF \
      -DQUL_GENERATORS=<PATH_TO_INSTALLED_QT_SDK>\QtMCUs\<version>\lib\cmake\Qul\QulGenerators.cmake \

ninja install
  • Use the custom Qt Quick Ultralite to build your application, which is not part of the Qt Quick Ultralite source tree:
    cd some\path\custom_builds
mkdir app # Put your application here. You can use the redbutton example from the SDK.
cd app
mkdir build
cd build

set QUL_DIR=some\path\custom_builds\qul
cmake .. \
      -G "Ninja" \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
      -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=some\path\custom_builds\qul\lib\cmake\Qul\toolchain\armgcc.cmake \
      -DQUL_GENERATORS=<PATH_TO_INSTALLED_QT_SDK>\QtMCUs\<version>\lib\cmake\Qul\QulGenerators.cmake \
      -DQUL_PLATFORM=<PLATFORM_NAME> \

ninja
ninja flash_<YOUR_APP_NAME>

Reading debug messages

By default, the output of printf calls are redirected to a virtual serial port, which is exposed on the host machine via USB.

Debugging

  • Open terminal window and run the following command:
    ST-LINK_gdbserver.exe -cp "<STM32_CUBE_PROG_INSTALL_PATH>\bin"

    where, <STM32_CUBE_PROG_INSTALL_PATH> is the directory where you've installed the Cube Programmer tool.

    GDB Server is now listening for TCP connections on the default port, 61234.

    Note: Actual TCP port used by ST-LINK_gdbserver is printed out on gdbserver's console.

  • Run arm-none-eabi-gdb in a separate console
    %ARMGCC_DIR%\bin\arm-none-eabi-gdb.exe <PATH_TO>\your_app.elf
  • Connect to the target via the gdbserver in the arm-none-eabi-gdb console using
    (gdb) target remote 127.0.0.1:61234

Troubleshooting

ST-LINK_gdbserver requires up-to-date ST-LINK firmware to be installed. If you see the following error:

Error in initializing ST-LINK device. Reason: ST-LINK firmware upgrade required.

you must upgrade the firmware to the latest version using the STM32CubeProgrammer tool.

If the problem persists after upgrade, retry with ST-LINK Upgrade tool from the ST webpage ( Download ).

Known limitations

STM32L4R9AII6 MCU does not have double precision floating point support. Care should be taken to avoid using them.

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