STMicroelectronics Begins STM32F7 Production, First to Market with Microcontrollers Featuring Advanced ARM® Cortex®-M7 Core
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Extensible STM32F7 Discovery kit revealed, leveraging ARM® mbed(TM) and Arduino
ecosystems to bring smartest STM32 to the masses
Geneva, June 25, 2015 - STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor
leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has
become the first chip maker to begin volume production of microcontrollers
featuring the new ARM(®) Cortex(®)-M7 processor: the latest and highest-
performing Cortex-M core for advanced consumer, industrial, medical, and
Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices.
The smart architecture of ST's new STM32F7 microcontrollers combines the Cortex-
M7 core with advanced peripherals, giving product designers unrivalled
opportunities to enhance application performance, add new functions, extend
battery life, ensure security, and minimize use of external components to save
cost and size. The architecture also saves designers' time usually spent
optimizing code performance and length, to allow extra focus on creating
differentiating features in the end product.
"ST's first-to-market advantage and industry-leading architecture and feature
integration enable our customers to deliver outstanding products into their own
target markets," said Daniel Colonna, Marketing Director, Microcontroller
Division, STMicroelectronics. "Moreover, the strength of our development
environment, including immediate availability of the STM32F7 Discovery Kit and
firmware, allows rapid design cycles."
To enable a large diversity of applications, the STM32F7 Discovery Kit comes
with the comprehensive STM32Cube firmware library, as well as direct support
from a wide ecosystem of software-development tool partners and the ARM(®)
mbed(TM) online community. The Discovery Kit's open hardware exposes the STM32F7
assets through an affordable compact design (priced at $49.90) including WQVGA
touchscreen color display, stereo audio, multi-sensor support, security, and
high-speed connectivity. Together with an integrated ST-Link debugger/programmer
(no need for a separate probe), unlimited expansion capability is provided
through the Arduino Uno connectivity support and immediate access to a large
choice of specialized add-on boards.
The STM32F7 devices are in production now, in a range of package options from a
14mm x 14mm LQFP100 to 28mm x 28mm LQFP208, plus 10mm x 10mm 0.65mm-pitch
UFBGA176, 13mm x 13mm 0.8mm-pitch TFBGA216, and 5.9mm x 4.6mm WLCSP143. Prices
start from $6.73 for the STM32F745VE in 100-pin LQFP with 512KB on-chip Flash,
for orders of 1000 units.
Further technical information:
STM32F7 microcontrollers maximize the advantages of the new Cortex-M7 core over
earlier cores such as the Cortex-M4. It has about twice the digital-signal
processing (DSP) capability for applications requiring high-speed or multi-
channel audio, video, wireless, motion recognition, or motor control. It is also
the first Cortex-M core to feature on-chip cache, and is capable of ultra-fast
data transfers and high-performance execution from embedded Flash or from
external memories such as dual-mode Quad-SPI. These Cortex-M7 advances are
combined with known strengths of the STM32 family, such as power efficiency,
pin, peripheral and software compatibility across more than 500 different device
variants, and the extensive STM32 development ecosystem.
Integrated with the Cortex-M7 core, ST's advanced peripherals have features such
as a dedicated power rail for the USB OTG peripheral, which enables USB
connectivity to continue operating while the rest of the chip is powered at
1.8V to save power. The dual clock domain on most peripherals allows the CPU
speed to be reduced to minimize power consumption, while keeping the clock
frequency unchanged on the communication peripherals.
ST has so far introduced two STM32F7 product lines. The STM32F745 and
STM32F746/756 all feature the Cortex-M7 core with floating-point unit and DSP
extensions, running at up to 216MHz. The devices deliver high processing
efficiency of up to 6 CoreMark/mW at 1.8V. At the same time, typical current in
Stop mode, with all SRAM saved, is only 100µA: similar to that of STM32F469
devices based on the Cortex-M4 core. Such outstanding power efficiency is
achieved through ST's leading 90-nanometer process, unique ART Accelerator(TM)
graphic engine that reduces Flash access time, and advanced voltage scaling and
underdrive/overdrive that help optimize speed and power consumption.
The STM32F745 has up to 1MB of Flash memory on-chip, as well as 320KB RAM,
Ethernet, QSPI and camera interfaces, and a Flexible Memory Controller (FMC).
The STM32F76 extends the functionality by integrating a TFT-LCD controller on-
chip. The STM32F756 has the same features as the STM32F746 with the addition of
a crypto/hash processor providing hardware acceleration for AES-128/-192/-256,
with support for GCM and CCM, Triple DES, and hash (MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-2).
The STM32F7 development ecosystem includes both the Discovery Kit and two
evaluation boards, STM32746G-EVAL2 and STM32756G-EVAL2, priced at $560 each. The
STM32F7 Discovery Kit (STM32F746G-DISCO) gives full flexibility to fine-tune
hardware and software at any stage of development, which minimizes financial
risks. Developers also benefit from the associated STM32CubeF7 firmware, and the
ability to re-use all STM32F4 software assets due to code compatibility.
About STMicroelectronics
ST is a global leader in the semiconductor market serving customers across the
spectrum of sense and power and automotive products and embedded processing
solutions. From energy management and savings to trust and data security, from
healthcare and wellness to smart consumer devices, in the home, car and office,
at work and at play, ST is found everywhere microelectronics make a positive and
innovative contribution to people's life. By getting more from technology to get
more from life, ST stands for life.augmented.
In 2014, the Company's net revenues were $7.40 billion. Further information on
ST can be found at www.st.com.
For Press Information Contact:
STMicroelectronics
Michael Markowitz
Director Technical Media Relations
+1 781 591 0354
michael.markowitz(at)st.com
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