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GigaDevice GD32VF103C-STARTER

Overview

The GD32VF103C-STARTER board is a hardware platform that enables prototyping on GD32VF103CB RISC-V MCU.

The GD32VF103CB features a single-core RISC-V 32-bit MCU which can run up to 108 MHz with flash accesses zero wait states, 128 KiB of Flash, 32 KiB of SRAM and 37 GPIOs.

gd32vf103c_starter

Hardware

  • GD32VF103CBT6 MCU

  • 1 x User LEDs

  • 1 x USART (USB port with CH340E)

  • USB FS connector

  • GD-Link on board programmer

  • J-Link/JTAG connector

For more information about the GD32VF103 SoC and GD32VF103C-STARTER board:

Supported Features

The board configuration supports the following hardware features:

Peripheral

Kconfig option

Devicetree compatible

GPIO

CONFIG_GPIO

gd,gd32-gpio

Machine timer

CONFIG_RISCV_MACHINE_TIMER

riscv,machine-timer

Nuclei ECLIC Interrupt Controller

CONFIG_NUCLEI_ECLIC

nuclei,eclic

PWM

CONFIG_PWM

gd,gd32-pwm

USART

CONFIG_SERIAL

gd,gd32-usart

Serial Port

The GD32VF103C-STARTER board has one serial communications port. TX connected at PA9 and RX at PA10.

Programming and Debugging

Before programming your board make sure to configure boot and serial jumpers as follows:

  • JP2/3: Select 2-3 for both (boot from user memory)

  • JP5/6: Select 1-2 positions (labeled as USART0)