July 14, 2014, Seoul – STMicroelectronics (ST), a global semiconductor company contributing to customers across a wide range of electronic applications, has launched new design tools. With tools for designing based on the STM32 F3 mixed-signal chip and the STM32 F0 entry-level chip, users can enjoy the efficiency of the STM32Cube™ software platform and the convenience of the STM32Nucleo development board.

Among the new development tools, the latest STM32CubeF3 and STM32CubeF0 embedded software supports the STM32 F3 and STM32 F0, providing a dedicated middleware stack, such as touch-sensor and USB libraries, free of charge and ready-to-use. It also provides a collection of drivers for STM32 peripherals through the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), which allows for the simple porting of applications from one STM32 series to another. When used with the latest version of the STM32CubeMX PC-based tool, this embedded software allows for the configuration of the microcontroller via a graphical wizard and the generation of initialization C code with a simple click, enabling direct use with popular external development tools.

Because the newly released software is included in the STM32Cube platform released earlier this year for STM32 F4, F2, and L0, it simplifies project initiation and allows for the utilization of hundreds of code use cases.

STM32 Nucleo development boards have also been released for the STM32 F3 (Nucleo-F302R8) and STM32 F0 lines (Nucleo-F072RB) to support early application development. Users can utilize not only ST's dedicated expansion boards but also the extensive ecosystem of Arduino application shields. The STM32 Nucleo boards allow for I/O access for all chips and include the ST Link debugger/programmer, eliminating the need for a separate debug probe. Additionally, they support embed™, allowing them to be run via the online development environment at mbed.org or connected directly.