📋 Tender Overview
STMicroelectronics has announced new STM32Cube software packs and tools as well as evaluation boards to accelerate development with the latest STM32U5 microcontrollers MCUs which are now ready for mass-market applications with stock at authorized distributors.The STM32U575 and STM32U585 MCUs combine security and power-saving innovations with the increased performance and energy efficiency of the latest Arm Cortex-M33 core. With up to 2MB of Flash memory on-chip typical applications include smart connected consumer products such as activity trackers and smart watches as well as smart-home equipment utility meters equipment for industrial sensing and signaling mobile point-of-sale POS terminals insulin pumps and glucose meters.As the first STM32 MCUs to leverage advanced 40nm process technology the STM32U5 series delivers superior feature integration memory density dynamic power consumption and standby power compared to alternative products in the market. There are also new power-saving features including a Low Power Background Autonomous Mode LPBAM that lets direct memory access DMA and key peripherals operate without CPU intervention. With an updated ST ART Accelerator the ability to turn off unused MCU memory and a selectable DCDC converter and low-dropout LDO regulator combination dynamic power is less than 19AMHz.The STM32CubeU5 enablement ecosystem for STM32U5 available on ST.com and GitHub has more than 200 project examples and provides software to help exercise MCU features like LPBAM Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low-Energy BLE. Support for OpenBootloader eases implementation of custom bootloader code. Azure RTOS with ThreadX RTOS as well as FreeRTOS and CMSIS OS wrappers ensures high performance and eases industry certifications. In addition the X-CUBE-STL self-test library and functional safety documentation assist safety-critical application development and accelerate IEC61508 SIL certification of STM32U5-based products.There are also software packages that simplify cybersecurity and help comply with industry best practices. These include reference code for Secure Boot and Secure Firmware Update SBSFU and a Trusted Firmware TF-M example that leverages Arms TrustZone isolation within the core to implement secure services for PSA level 3 and SESIP level 3 certifications. STs industry-certified X-CUBE-CRYPTOLIB cryptographic library is updated with simplified API and extra cryptographic algorithms and support for Secure Firmware Install SFI protects downloading of customer firmware. These software packages work with the MCUs enhanced hardware security features which include strengthened protection against side-channel attacks as well as internal monitoring to erase secret data which meets payment-card industry PCI requirements for POS applications.Hardware kits for the new MCUs are also in stock at www.st.com and distributors. They include the Discovery kit for IoT node B-U585I-IOT02A priced at 65.00 which contains MEMS context sensing and BLE and Wi-Fi modules. The board can connect directly to cloud services and has been chosen as a reference platform by Microsoft and Amazon.
