Enabling easy bare metal development on a single-core MPU through the extension of the STM32Cube environment
Fully integrated with the STM32Cube ecosystem… Moving to high-performance MPU projects in the same development environment

STMicroelectronics (hereinafter ST) is offering a new software pack for free that enables the use of additional features of a high-performance MPU in next-generation products while migrating existing code designed for simple, small MCUs using the STM32CubeMP13.

ST announced on the 10th new software to migrate STM32 microcontroller code to the more powerful STM32MP1 microprocessor (MPU).

As end users continue to demand more features and faster responses in technologies that support daily life and work, manufacturers have come to need effective solutions to improve product performance.

Industrial real-time applications are a prime example, and modern process equipment, factory automation systems, and IoT devices are increasingly demanding host systems that offer performance far superior to what MCUs typically provide.

To address this trend, ST's STM32MP1 MPU provides a powerful Arm® Cortex®-A7 application core architecture with superior processing performance and memory capacity.

STM32CubeMP13 supports embedded bare-metal applications or RTOS on the STM32MP13 SoC, providing an alternative to OpenSTLinux that guarantees faster execution times than general microcontrollers.

Users can verify that the ported code continues to meet strict real-time specifications, such as interrupt times and latency.

In addition, the RTOS maintains low power consumption while utilizing the MPU's larger memory.

Designers using ST's STM32 embedded microcontrollers can move to high-performance MPU-based projects within the same familiar development environment with the STM32CubeMP13, which is fully integrated into the STM32Cube ecosystem.

This ecosystem includes the STM32CubeMX device configurator, STM32CubeIDE development tool, STM32CubeProgrammer, and more.

The STM32CubeMP13 comes with all the essential components required to execute embedded code on the STM32MP13 Arm Cortex-A7 MPU, including the Board Support Package (BSP) and Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL).

Azure RTOS (Azure RTOS, migrated to Eclipse ThreadX) is provided pre-integrated as an example of a real-time operating system.

In addition, code samples are provided to help embedded developers handle the additional complexities arising in MPU-based systems, such as power management including DDR-RAM self-refresh control and booting using external memory.

Entry-level applications utilizing the STM32MP13 targeting the industrial, smart city, smart home, retail, medical, health, and wellness markets are the existing ecosystemYou can continue developing using the system and the OpenSTLinux distribution.

This software is provided for free and is currently available for download at https://www.st.com/en/embedded-software/stm32cubemp13.html .