The first ARM Cortex M7 microcontroller in volume production

STMicroelectronics is the first chip maker to start volume production of ARM Cortex-M7 processor based microcontroller for high performance consumer, industrial, medical, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. STM32F7 microcontrollers offer 2x digital-signal processing (DSP) capability for applications requiring high-speed or multi-channel audio, video, wireless, motion recognition, or motor control compared to ARM Cortex M4 based microcontrollers. STM32F7 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. STM32 family is known in the market for power efficiency and also pin, peripheral and software compatibility across more than 500 different device variants, and the extensive STM32 development ecosystem. Advanced peripherals have features such as a dedicated power rail for the USB OTG peripheral and 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. STM32F7 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 100µA: similar to that of STM32F469 devices based on the Cortex-M4 core. The unique ART Accelerator graphic engine reduces Flas...