Avenger96

The Avenger96 board is the official DHCOR STM32MP1 reference design!

Introduction

The AVENGER Board is a 96Boards compliant consumer edition board based on the STM32MP15 series of SoCs. The STM32MP15 series is a highly integrated multi-market applications processor designed to enable secure and portable applications within the Internet of Things. AVENGER board features Dual-core Arm® Cortex®-A7 processors operating at up to 650 MHz, Single core Arm® Cortex® M4 operating up to 209 MHz. In addition, an extensive set of interfaces and connectivity peripherals are included to interface to cameras, touch-screen displays, MMC/SD cards and media processor engine. It also fully supports wireless communication, including WLAN and BLE.

Technical Details

STM32MP157AAC 2x ARM® Cortex-A7 up to 650 MHz 1x ARM® Cortex-M4 up to 209 MHz GPU 1x 3D GPU Vivante® @ 533 MHz - OpenGL® ES 2.0 PMIC STPMIC1A DDR3 DRAM 1024 Mbyte @ 533 MHz eMMC Flash 8 Gbyte, v4.51 interface NOR Flash 2 Mbyte, Quad SPI interface EEPROM 128 byte microSD Socket UHS-I speed grade, v3.01 USB Host 2x type A, 2.0 high-speed USB OTG 1x type micro-AB, 2.0 high-speed HDMI WXGA (1366x768) @ 60 fps, HDMI 1.4 WiFi / Bluetooth WiFi 5 GHz & 2.4GHz IEEE 802.11a / b / g / n / ac Bluetooth® v4.2 (BR/EDR/BLE) PCB antenna Ethernet 10 / 100 / 1000 Mbit/s, IEEE 802.3-compliant

Push-Buttons Power and reset Battery Socket CR1216, CR1220 and CR1225 LEDs 4x green user controlled LEDs 1x blue Bluetooth enabled 1x yellow WiFi enabled 1x red power supply okay Boot Mode 3 bit boot mode switch Debug Interface JTAG interface via tag-connect Supply (SYS_DCIN) 8 - 18 VDC Temperature Range 0 - 40 °C Dimensions 100 x 85 mm Expansion Connectors 2 x UART 2 x I2C 1 x I2S 1 x SPI 12 x GPIOs (also useable as 2x CAN, 2x ADC) 1 x MIPI-CSI2 1 x MIPI-DSI

Product Change Notifications (PCN)

DHCOR STM32MP15

• PCN_DHCOR-STM32MP1-001_R01_2022-10-07.pdf (New default bootloader, based on testbench configuration)

Documentation

• Avenger96 588-200 Getting-Started R04
• NEW DHCOR STM32MP1 User Manual R05 IMPORTANT: Please have a look at NEW chapter 24. Hardware design checklist
• NEW DHCOR STM32MP1 User Manual R05 IMPORTANT: Please have a look at NEW chapter 24. Hardware design checklist

NOTE: Please also have a look at the STM32 MPU wiki: Links

Design Files

• Avenger96 Schematic
• Avenger96 Bill of Material
• Avenger96 Assembly Top
• Avenger96 Assembly Bottom
• Avenger96 3D STEP file
• DHCOR STM32MP1 Allegro/Orcad schematic and layout symbols (release date: 16.10.2019) Now with Allegro *.brd file and 3D information
• DHCOR STM32MP1 3D STEP file
• Avenger96 CubeMX configuration (release date: 18.04.2023)

Software

DH Mainline based Linux

Notes:

- The Mainline based Linux offers Etnaviv GPU driver support!!!

- Based on kernel 6.1.x and Yocto version kirkstone

• Yocto BSP meta layer --> Github
• Easy Yocto build via KAS --> Github
• NEW DH Mainline based Starter Image 2023-09-20 (based on 6.1.54 kernel)
• NEW Default Bootloader "stm32mp15xx-dhcor-testbench" programmed with delivered DHCOR module
• Linux and bootloader documentation

NEW How to start with custom DHCOR design?

The patch below is an example patch which applies on top of u-boot v2021.01 and implements a custom board derived from 3V3 option of DHCOR STM32MP1 SoM. That's pretty much all you have to change to implement the board. But, please tweak the DTs esp. where there are the FIXME comments.

NEW 0001-ARM-dts-stm32-Add-DHCOR-based-FOO-board-u-boot-v2021.01.patch

• Start with Qt
• STM32MP1: Debugging M4
• STM32MP1 Browser Performance
• DHSOM device tree structure

Debian

• NEW Debian Buster Starter Image (based on 5.10 kernel)

login: root

password: foo

OpenSTLinux

!!! This project is NOT maintained from DH electronics!!! --> Please use the "DH Mainline based Linux" version for your project. The OpenSTLinux should only be used for testing !!!

Notes:

- Based on OpenSTLinux v3.0

- GPU support based on original vivante GPU driver.

- Based on kernel 5.10.x and Yocto version dunfell

• Yocto meta layer --> Github

DH electronics Github contains the meta-av96 layer for ST SDK. Please see readme.txt which describes the build process.

• OpenSTLinux-3.0 based on Yocto Dunfell LTS and Linux 5.10.10 - v7.0 Starter Image (Supported by Arrow Electronics)

Starter Image Changelog

This Image includes four different bootmodes to support some additional mezzanine boars. Click here to learn, how to change them.

X-LINUX-AI OpenSTLinux Expansion Package: Description: Expansion Package that targets artificial intelligence for STM32MP1 Series devices.

• NEW X-LINUX-AI OpenSTLinux Expansion Package
• NEW How to install X-LINUX-AI v2.0.0 on Avenger96 board

Useful instructions

How to test OV5640 camera

To use the D3 mezzanine board with AV96 and the OV5640 camera, one has to apply the correct DTO first:

STM32MP> setenv loaddtos '#conf-stm32mp157a-avenger96.dtb#conf-stm32mp15xx-avenger96-overlay-ov5640-x7.dtbo'; boot

Afterward it is possible to stream frames from the camera:

$ XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/var/run/user/$(id -u weston)/ gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw,width=1280,height=720 ! queue ! waylandsink

How to load U-Boot with dfu-util

• U-Boot recovery for STM32MP1 DHSOM via DFU

SPI Flash and eMMC Image Programming via UMS (universal mass storage)

• Avenger96 UMS Image Programming

SPI Flash and eMMC Image Programming via Cube Programmer (OLD)

• Avenger96 Image Programming

Mezzanine Boards by DH electronics

DSI Display Adaptor Board

DSI Display Adaptor Board

You can easily add an DSI display to your Avenger96 with the help of the DSI Display Adaptor Board. The display can be activated easily on our Mainline Image with a device tree overlay as described here. To get one of the boards, simply reach out to us and we'll prepare one for you.

Links

• STM32 MPU wiki
• STM32 MPU wiki - Device tree configuration
• STM32MP15 resources
• 96Boards