STMicroelectronics STM32 boards (netduino2, netduinoplus2, stm32vldiscovery)

The STM32 chips are a family of 32-bit ARM-based microcontroller by STMicroelectronics.

The STM32F1 series is based on ARM Cortex-M3 core. The following machines are based on this chip :

  • stm32vldiscovery STM32VLDISCOVERY board with STM32F100RBT6 microcontroller

The STM32F2 series is based on ARM Cortex-M3 core. The following machines are based on this chip :

  • netduino2 Netduino 2 board with STM32F205RFT6 microcontroller

The STM32F4 series is based on ARM Cortex-M4F core. This series is pin-to-pin compatible with STM32F2 series. The following machines are based on this chip :

  • netduinoplus2 Netduino Plus 2 board with STM32F405RGT6 microcontroller

There are many other STM32 series that are currently not supported by QEMU.

Supported devices

  • ARM Cortex-M3, Cortex M4F

  • Analog to Digital Converter (ADC)

  • EXTI interrupt

  • Serial ports (USART)

  • SPI controller

  • System configuration (SYSCFG)

  • Timer controller (TIMER)

Missing devices

  • Camera interface (DCMI)

  • Controller Area Network (CAN)

  • Cycle Redundancy Check (CRC) calculation unit

  • Digital to Analog Converter (DAC)

  • DMA controller

  • Ethernet controller

  • Flash Interface Unit

  • GPIO controller

  • I2C controller

  • Inter-Integrated Sound (I2S) controller

  • Power supply configuration (PWR)

  • Random Number Generator (RNG)

  • Real-Time Clock (RTC) controller

  • Reset and Clock Controller (RCC)

  • Secure Digital Input/Output (SDIO) interface

  • USB OTG

  • Watchdog controller (IWDG, WWDG)

Boot options

The STM32 machines can be started using the -kernel option to load a firmware. Example:

$ qemu-system-arm -M stm32vldiscovery -kernel firmware.bin