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November 14, 2014, Seoul – STMicroelectronics (ST), a global semiconductor company serving customers across a wide range of electronic applications and the world's leading manufacturer and supplier of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) for consumer, mobile[1], and automotive[2] applications, announced the Open.MEMS program, which can shorten product development time through rapid and easy single-node evaluation licensing.

To encourage the widespread use of ST’s MEMS and sensors by all customers and open community developers, this program is available free of charge in drivers, middleware, and application software from Open.MEMS licensees, starting with sensor fusion of 3-axis accelerometers, 3-axis gyroscopes, and 3-axis magnetometers essential for mobile and wearable applications. ST anticipates that it can continuously expand this program by adding and supplementing software libraries, citing blocks for pedometers, tilt-compensated compasses, gesture recognition, activity monitoring, and pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) as examples of such libraries.

Benedetto Vigna, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group at ST, said, “ST has grown into a leading company in MEMS and sensors for consumer, mobile, telematics, and automotive infotainment applications by supplying outstanding and innovative products to most of the industry’s top companies. The ‘S’ in MEMS has historically stood for Systems, but now it also represents our Software, enabling many people around the world to express their creativity through ST’s Open.MEMS program.”

This Open.mems program is supported by ST’s STM32 Open Development Platform. This platform features openness, affordability, and resilience to implement various functions, such as sensing, control, connectivity, power, and audio, enabling the integration of ST’s industry-leading STM32 ARM® Cortex®-M processor core microcontrollers and various other ST component products in product prototyping and product development.

Once you have the STM32 Nucleo development board and the STM32 Nucleo sensor expansion board, you can download and install the STM32Cube development tool, STM32 Nucleo expansion software, and additional libraries. By agreeing to the online license agreement, a unique key for the STM32 Nucleo development board is generated, and by copying and pasting this unique key into the software, all APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) of each ST library are automatically unlocked, allowing you to perform prototyping work within 5 minutes.

The Open.mems program will be launched on November 11, 2014, and will regularly expand low-level drivers, middleware/libraries, and application layer code.