STM32's five new products are launched, and heavy investment is made to actively expand production capacity!

STM32H5 also offers a rich product portfolio to choose from.

ST also provides a variety of development tools for STM32H5, including economical development boards Nucleo-H503RB and Nucleo-H563ZI suitable for prototyping, and multi-connectivity kit STM32H573I-DK. He Difan suggested that if you want to use Secure Manager or encryption and decryption modules, it is recommended to use STM32H573-DK, because STM32H573 has encryption and decryption modules, and the small demo board also has OctoSPI storage and external storage.

STM32WBA, low-power Bluetooth 5.3

The original intention of launching STM32WBA is to extend security functions to more IoT applications. Whether it is point-to-point or point-to-multi Bluetooth communication, or networking communication, it places high demands on the integration, power consumption, and data processing speed of wireless microcontroller chips. In this regard, STM32 has a complete layout in 2.4GHz short-distance application scenarios.

Wireless dual-core MCU STM32WB , Cortex-M0+ core runs wireless protocol stack, Cortex-M4 core runs application. It can support up to 1Mb memory and 256K RAM, and can support BLE5.3, Zigbee, Thread and private 2.4G protocols at the protocol layer. All protocols can support multi-protocol static and dynamic concurrency.

The Bluetooth low energy single-core chip BlueNRG SoC is based on Arm Cortex-M0+. It can support BLE5.3, long distance, 2Mbps rate and extended broadcast. The latest BLUENRG-LPS product can support AOA and AOD positioning technology.

The new STM32WBA , based on the Arm Cortex-M33 core, is the first single-core wireless microcontroller to receive SESIP Level 3 certification and support low-power Bluetooth 5.3 applications. It has a main frequency of up to 100MHz and a CoreMark score of 407, and can provide the following performance advantages:

• Based on the latest Bluetooth® low energy protocol Bluetooth® 5.3, high data rate, ensures fast and reliable data transmission

• High output power +10 dBm, expanding the remote communication range and enabling long-distance communication capabilities

• Low-power communication capabilities extend battery life by extending device communication broadcasts

• Based on the Arm® Cortex®-M33 core, with a main frequency of 100MHz and a CoreMark score of 407, ensuring efficient application processing capabilities

• Protect your IP and enhance privacy based on SESIP3 device features

• Inheriting the ultra-low power performance of STM32U5 (LP-DMA, short wake-up time)

• Proven STM32Cube ecosystem reduces time to market

• Highly integrated SoC reduces BOM costs and simplifies wireless application development
  

STM32WBA product introduction and block diagram

When it comes to wireless products, the design and development of wireless protocols is the most important aspect for engineers. STM32WBA can provide different levels of integration, including developers can customize solutions according to their needs. First of all, it supports 2.4G private protocols, and engineers can do configuration development based on the link layer (ie, L2CAP layer). It also supports customized changes based on the existing standard Bluetooth solution protocol, and engineers only need to develop the main controller interface. In addition, STM32WBA also supports BLE5.3 basic protocol stack or full-featured complete protocol stack, as well as calling complete Bluetooth configuration for development. Engineers can flexibly choose and configure these three methods.

In terms of ecology, the STM32WBA ecosystem inherits the complete and rich ecosystem of STM32. The ecosystem of STM32WBA products consists of two parts. For the hardware part, ST can provide a Nucleo development board Nucleo-WBA52CG. For the software part, STM32WBA can be well integrated into the entire Cube development environment, making connections, examples, and peripheral configurations. You can also use STM32CubeMX to generate code and power consumption estimation. There is also a CubeMonRF function that can detect link quality and wireless design-related detection.

As a wireless Bluetooth product, it needs to be connected to a mobile phone, and developers also need to use the mobile phone to verify whether the design results or design content are safe and reliable. Therefore, compared with other MCUs, STM32WBA has also added mobile APPs ST BLE Sensor, BLE StarNet and BLE Toolbox, and there are two versions for Android and iOS. Among them, BLE Sensor is used with the OOB demonstration board, using the BlueST protocol to read the data transmitted by the low-power Bluetooth device. StatNet is a star topology application APP that can see the data of device gateway information. ToolBox is the latest APP, and its functions are relatively comprehensive. It can discover peripheral devices, services and features, and perform read and write operations. It can also use this device to transmit and monitor some cloud data on the network.

STM32MP13, cost-effective industrial-grade MPU

The STM32 MPU product family has welcomed a new member - the STM32MP13. This general-purpose industrial-grade processor product takes into account power consumption, price and performance. It is an MPU product with super cost-effectiveness. It focuses on applications with performance requirements higher than typical high-end embedded microcontrollers, such as Industry 4.0, factory automation, payment terminal security applications, smart metering, smart home, power and new energy infrastructure, etc.

STM32MP13 has three main features: ease of use, security, and low power consumption.

In terms of ease of use , STM32MP13 and STM32MP15 share development tools and software. The fully mainlined OpenSTLinux distribution includes Linux board support packages (BSP), drivers, secure boot chains supported by secure production, and popular application frameworks, which help to speed up the time to market of terminal products, save development costs, and ensure that software can be seamlessly migrated and expanded. At the same time, the latest OpenSTLinux distribution also adds the X-LINUX-RT expansion package that supports Linux real-time functions (Linux-RT). In addition, STM32MP13 also provides further real-time performance support, providing software developed based on STM32Cube's Bare metal and Azure RTOS to meet users' needs for hard real-time applications. This is especially friendly to users who are accustomed to using MCU development, allowing developers to get a development experience similar to MCU while using the powerful performance of MPU.

In terms of security , the STM32MP13 has built-in powerful security features, including memory protection to prevent illegal access and control; hardware encryption algorithms to enhance hardware robustness; TrustZone-based code isolation for runtime protection, in addition to security certification throughout the product life cycle. The security certifications passed are SESIP Level 3, Payment Card Industry (PCI) PTS/POI 6.0 and Arm PSA Certified. The STM32MP13 provides complete security ecosystem support, including trusted execution based on OP-TEE, trusted firmware TF-A for Cortex-A, unchangeable permanent root of trust, STM32Cube framework for MPU, secure key settings, and third-party partner security-related solutions.

In terms of low power consumption , the STM32MP13 integrates innovative energy-saving features that have been fully verified in the STM32 MCU, plus the STPMIC1 power management IC (PMIC) dedicated to STM32 MPU products, which can help developers optimize power consumption, especially in various low-power modes, such as standby and VBAT modes, which can achieve energy savings of more than 90%.

In addition, MP13 has passed rigorous industrial-grade tests and can support 100% operation time for 10 years. The widest junction temperature range of the chip supports -40 to +125 degrees. In terms of system performance, its built-in Cortex-A7 can reach a maximum frequency of 1GHz, DRAM supports a clock of 533MHz, and has optimized internal interconnection.

According to the difference in peripheral interface types, STM32MP13 is divided into three series: STM32MP131, STM32MP133 and STM32MP135, with a total of 36 product models.

In addition, ST also released development board solutions based on STM32MP13 simultaneously with domestic partners. The development board solutions come from Mir Electronics, Huaqing Yuanjian and Zhengdian Atom. Mir Electronics' development kit includes CPU modules and baseboards, which are specially tailored for energy and power, industrial control, industrial gateways and industrial HMI industrial applications. Huaqing Yuanjian's solution includes development kits (CPU modules, baseboards) and productized edge gateways, which can provide software and hardware technology R&D services for different users' applications. Zhengdian Atom's development board has expanded rich functional interfaces and modules for easy user use.