STMicroelectronics has announced the extension of its STM32 family of more than 500 pin- and software-compatible microcontrollers. The new STM32 F7 microcontroller (MCU) series leverages the ARM Cortex-M7 core, just announced as ARM's newest and most powerful Cortex-M processor.

ST's STM32 F7 series leapfrogs the industry's previous high-performance 32-bit Cortex-M champ, ST's own STM32 F4, in delivering up to twice as much processing and DSP performance that is accessible via a seamless upgrade path.

Headlining the industry's most successful family of Cortex M-core-based microcontrollers, the new STM32 F7 MCU series operates at frequencies up to 200 MHz and uses a 6-stage superscalar pipeline and Floating Point Unit (FPU) to produce up to 1000 CoreMarks1. Architectural innovations surrounding the MCU boost performance and ease of use: ST has included two independent mechanisms to reach 0-wait-state performance from both internal and external memories: using ST's Adaptive Real-Time (ART Accelerator) for internal embedded Flash and L1 cache for both execution and data access from internal and external memories.

"ARM and ST have a long-standing and extensive business relationship, and it is exciting to see this extended to include MCUs based on the latest ARM Cortex-M7 processor," said Noel Hurley, general manager, CPU group, ARM. "This partnership brings the benefits of the broadest ecosystem to a new set of performance - and reliability - demanding embedded applications."

"ST has earned its place as the long-time leading supplier of Cortex-M MCUs by working closely with ARM as a lead partner and with our customers to ensure their time-to-market success," said Daniel Colonna, STMicroelectronics Microcontroller Marketing Director. "The strength of our development ecosystem, the breadth of our MCU, sensor, power, and communications portfolios, and the technical support we deliver to customers makes the STM32 F7 the seamlessly accessible natural extension to top our industry-leading portfolio. The new level of internal- and external-memory performance gives developers new possibilities for innovation, as they no longer need to optimize their code for performance and memory."

Manufactured on ST's robust and production-proven 90nm embedded-non-volatile memory CMOS process technology2, the STM32 F7 series impressively demonstrates ST's commitment to accelerate its own and customer innovation to meet time-to-market demands. At the same time, the advanced, future-proof architecture offers significant headroom to deliver far greater MCU performance as the Company moves to more advanced process geometries.

An Evaluation kit for the STM32 F7 series will be available from STMicroelectronics in Q1 of 2015, fill in the form below to reserve your FREE Evaluation board upon release. 

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