MCUs Boost Real-Time IoT-Device Innovation | Sensors Magazine
STMicroelectronics expands its STM32 family of microcontrollers (MCUs) with the STM32F7x0 and H7x0 Value Line microcontrollers. As per the company, the additions give extra flexibility to create affordable performance-oriented systems including real-time IoT devices, without compromising features or cyber protection.
These new lines trim embedded Flash to the essential, still allowing secure boot, sensitive code and real-time routines to run safely on-chip, leveraging access times over 25 times faster than for external Flash (for cache miss). If needed, applications can scale-up either by adding off-chip serial or parallel (up to 32-bit) memories and leveraging the MCUs’ broad external interfaces and eXecute in Place (XiP) capability, or by porting to other pin-to-pin compatible STM32F7 or STM32H7 MCU lines, with up to 2Mbyte Flash and up to 1Mbyte RAM, supported by the same ecosystem with the same easy-to-use tools.