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Seeed Studio LoRa-E5 mini
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Overview
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LoRa-E5 mini is a compacted-sized development board suitable for the rapid
testing and building of small-sized LoRa device, exposing all capabilities of
Seeed Studio LoRa-E5 STM32WLE5JC module.
.. image:: img/lora_e5_mini.jpg
:align: center
:alt: LoRa-E5 mini
Hardware
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The boards' LoRa-E5 Module packages a STM32WLE5JC SOC, a 32MHz TCXO,
and a 32.768kHz crystal oscillator in a 28-pin SMD package.
This STM32WLEJC SOC is powered by ARM Cortex-M4 core and integrates Semtech
SX126X LoRa IP to support (G)FSK, BPSK, (G)MSK, and LoRa modulations.
- LoRa-E5 STM32WLE5JC Module with STM32WLE5JC multiprotocol LPWAN single-core
32-bit microcontroller (Arm® Cortex®-M4 at 48 MHz) in 28-pin SMD package
featuring:
- Ultra-low-power MCU
- RF transceiver (150 MHz to 960 MHz frequency range) supporting LoRa®,
(G)FSK, (G)MSK, and BPSK modulations
- 256-Kbyte Flash memory and 64-Kbyte SRAM
- Hardware encryption AES256-bit and a True random number generator
- 1 user LED
- 2 serial communication (RX/TX) LEDs
- 1 boot/user and 1 reset push-button
- 32.768 kHz LSE crystal oscillator
- 32 MHz HSE oscillator
- Board connectors:
- USB Type-C connector
- +/- (battery) power input pins (3-5V)
- SMA-K and IPEX antenna connectors
- Delivered with SMA antenna (per default IPEX connector is disconnected)
- Flexible power-supply options: USB Type C or 3-5V battery soldered to +/- pins
- Suitable for rapid prototyping of end nodes based on LoRaWAN, Sigfox, wM-Bus,
and many other proprietary protocols
- All GPIOs led out from the LoRa-E5 STM32WLE5JC module
- 4x M2 mounting holes
More information about the board can be found at the `LoRa-E5 mini Wiki`_.
More information about LoRa-E5 STM32WLE5JC Module can be found here:
- `LoRa-E5 STM32WLE5JC Module Wiki`_
- `LoRa-E5 STM32WLE5JC Module datasheet`_
- `STM32WLE5JC datasheet`_
- `STM32WLE5JC reference manual`_
- `STM32WLE5JC on www.st.com`_
Supported Features
==================
The Zephyr LoRa-E5 mini configuration supports the following hardware features:
+-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+
| Interface | Controller | Driver/Component |
+===========+============+=====================================+
| ADC | on-chip | adc |
+-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+
| AES | on-chip | crypto |
+-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+
| COUNTER | on-chip | rtc |
+-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+
| CLOCK | on-chip | reset and clock control |
+-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+
| FLASH | on-chip | flash |
+-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+
| GPIO | on-chip | gpio |
+-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+
| I2C | on-chip | i2c |
+-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+
| MPU | on-chip | arch/arm |
+-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+
| NVIC | on-chip | arch/arm |
+-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+
| PINMUX | on-chip | pinmux |
+-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+
| RADIO | on-chip | LoRa |
+-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+
| SPI | on-chip | spi |
+-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+
| UART | on-chip | serial port-polling; |
| | | serial port-interrupt |
+-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+
| WATCHDOG | on-chip | independent watchdog |
+-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+
Other hardware features are not yet supported on this Zephyr port.
The default configuration can be found in the defconfig and dts files:
- :zephyr_file:`boards/arm/lora_e5_mini/lora_e5_mini_defconfig`
- :zephyr_file:`boards/arm/lora_e5_mini/lora_e5_mini.dts`
Connections and IOs
===================
LoRa-E5 mini has 4 GPIO controllers. These controllers are responsible for pin
muxing, input/output, pull-up, etc.
Available pins:
---------------
.. image:: img/lora_e5_mini_pinout.jpg
:align: center
:alt: LoRa-E5 mini Pinout
Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:
----------------------------------
- USART_1 TX : PB6
- USART_1 RX : PB7
- I2C_2_SCL : PB15
- I2C_2_SDA : PA15
- BOOT_PB : PB13
- LED_1 : PB5
System Clock
------------
LoRa-E5 mini board System Clock could be driven by the low-power internal (MSI),
High-speed internal (HSI) or High-speed external (HSE) oscillator, as well as
main PLL clock. By default System clock is driven by the MSI clock at 48MHz.
Programming and Debugging
*************************
Applications for the ``lora_e5_mini`` board configuration can be built the
usual way (see :ref:`build_an_application`).
In the factory the module is flashed with an DFU bootloader, an AT command
firmware, and the read protection level 1 is enabled.
So before you can program a Zephyr application to the module for the first time
you have to reset the read protection to level 0.
In case you use an st-link debugger you can use the STM32CubeProgrammer GUI to
set the RDP option byte to ``AA``,
or use the STM32_Programmer_CLI passing the ``--readunprotect`` command
to perform this read protection regression.
The RDP level 1 to RDP level 0 regression will erase the factory programmed AT
firmware, from which seeed has neither released the source code nor a binary.
Also, note that on the module the ``BOOT0`` pin of the SOC is not accessible,
so the system bootloader will only be executed if configured in the option bytes.
Flashing
========
The LoRa-E5 mini does not include a on-board debug probe.
But the module can be debugged by connecting an external debug probe to the
2.54mm header.
Depending on the external probe used, ``openocd``, the ``stm32cubeprogrammer``,
``pyocd``, ``blackmagic``, or ``jlink`` runner can be used to flash the board.
Additional notes:
- Pyocd: For STM32WL support Pyocd needs additional target information, which
can be installed by adding "pack" support with the following pyocd command:
.. code-block:: console
$ pyocd pack --update
$ pyocd pack --install stm32wl
Flashing an application to LoRa-E5 mini
---------------------------------------
Connect the LoRa-E5 to your host computer using the external debug probe.
Then build and flash an application. Here is an example for the
:ref:`hello_world` application.
Run a serial host program to connect with your board:
Per default the console on ``usart1`` is available on the USB Type C connector
via the built-in USB to UART converter.
.. code-block:: console
$ picocom --baud 115200 /dev/ttyACM0
Then build and flash the application.
.. zephyr-app-commands::
:zephyr-app: samples/hello_world
:board: lora_e5_mini
:goals: build flash
Debugging
=========
You can debug an application in the usual way. Here is an example for the
:zephyr:code-sample:`blinky` application.
.. zephyr-app-commands::
:zephyr-app: samples/basic/blinky
:board: lora_e5_mini
:maybe-skip-config:
:goals: debug
.. _LoRa-E5 mini Wiki:
https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/LoRa_E5_mini/
.. _LoRa-E5 STM32WLE5JC Module Wiki:
https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/LoRa-E5_STM32WLE5JC_Module/
.. _LoRa-E5 STM32WLE5JC Module datasheet:
https://files.seeedstudio.com/products/317990687/res/LoRa-E5%20module%20datasheet_V1.0.pdf
.. _STM32WLE5JC on www.st.com:
https://www.st.com/en/microcontrollers-microprocessors/stm32wle5jc.html
.. _STM32WLE5JC datasheet:
https://www.st.com/resource/en/datasheet/stm32wle5jc.pdf
.. _STM32WLE5JC reference manual:
https://www.st.com/resource/en/reference_manual/dm00530369-stm32wlex-advanced-armbased-32bit-mcus-with-subghz-radio-solution-stmicroelectronics.pdf