STMicroelectronics today announced availability of its new STM32 F-2 series MCUs. The series offers 30 new devices delivering 150 Dhrystone MIPS (DMIPS) when executing code from Flash at 120MHz.
The STM32 F-2 microcontroller series combines ST’s 90nm process technology with the company’s Adaptive Real-Time memory accelerator (ART Accelerator).The series also offers CoreMark-confirmed 188uA/MHz dynamic power consumption, when executing from Flash, equivalent to drawing 22.5mA at 120MHz. In addition, the series offers on-chip memory densities that ST claims are among the highest of any Cortex-M3 based MCUs available.
The addition of 30 new devices in the F-2 series brings the total number of STM32 microcontrollers to 180 pin- and software-compatible devices sharing a common pool of peripherals.
STM32F205 devices provide from 128 Kbytes to 1 Mbytes of Flash, up to 128 kbytes of SRAM, a USB On-The-Go (OTG) full-speed/high-speed interface, and a choice of LQFP64, LQFP100, LQFP144 or WLCSP64 packages.
STM32F207 adds another full-speed USB OTG interface, an Ethernet 10/100 MAC supporting both MII and RMII and with IEEE1588 Precise Time Protocol hardware support, and an 8- to 14-bit parallel camera interface supporting up to 27 Mbyte/s at27MHz or 48 Mbyte/s at 48MHz allowing connection of a CMOS camera sensor. The STM32F207 is available in LQFP100, LQFP144 and UFBGA176 packages.
STM32F215 and STM32F217 series provide a cryptographic security processor featuring hardware acceleration for AES 128/192/256, Triple DES, and HASH (MD5, SHA-1) protocols. Available Flash memory densities for these devices are 512 Kbyte and 1 Mbyte.
The new F-2 series is targeted at imaging, connectivity, security, audio and control applications.