October 2019 UM2153 Rev 5 1/57
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UM2153
User manual
Discovery kit for IoT node, multi-channel communication
with STM32L4
Introduction
The STM32L4 Discovery kit for the IoT node (B-L475E-IOT01A) allows users to develop
applications with direct connection to cloud servers.
The STM32L4 Discovery kit enables a wide diversity of applications by exploiting low-power
multilink communication (Bluetooth
®
Low Energy, Sub-GHz), multiway sensing (detection,
environmental awareness) and Arm
®
Cortex
®
-M4 core-based STM32L4 Series features.
ARDUINO
®
Uno V3 and PMOD™ connectivity provide unlimited expansion capabilities with
a large choice of specialized add-on boards.
The STM32L4 Discovery kit includes an ST-LINK debugger/programmer and comes with
the comprehensive STM32Cube software libraries together with packaged software
examples to seamlessly connect to cloud servers. In addition a direct access to the Arm
®
Mbed Enabled
™
on-line resources at http://mbed.org is available.
Figure 1. B-L475E-IOT01A Discovery kit
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Contents UM2153
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Contents
1 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2 Product marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3 System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4 Development toolchains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5 Demonstration software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6 Ordering information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7 Hardware layout and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.1 STM32L4 Discovery kit for IoT node layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.2 STM32L4 Discovery kit for IoT node mechanical drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.3 Embedded ST-LINK/V2-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.3.1 Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.3.2 ST-LINK/V2-1 firmware upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7.4 Power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7.5 Programming/debugging when the power supply is not from
ST-LINK (5V_ST_LINK) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.6 Clock sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.7 Reset sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.8 USB OTG FS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.9 Quad-SPI NOR Flash memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
7.10 Virtual COM port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
7.11 RF modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
7.11.1 Bluetooth (V4.1 compliant) SPBTLE-RF module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
7.11.2 Sub-GHz low-power-programmable RF module
(SPSGRF-868 or SPSGRF-915) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7.11.3 Wi-Fi module Inventek system ISM43362-M3G-L44 (802.11 b/g/n) . . . 22
7.11.4 Dynamic NFC Tag based on M24SR with its printed NFC antenna . . . . 23
7.12 STMicroelectronics sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
7.12.1 Two on-board ST-MEMS microphones (MP34DT01) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
