Electronics Era: What are the key advantages of the STM32U0 series?
Sridhar: STM32U0 is the latest generation of entry cost ultra-low-power STM32. The series is the ideal combination between energy consumption, features, and cost, enabling more design freedom in entry-level, battery-operated devices.
Key advantages can be summarized as below :
Energy savings and longer product usage:
The STM32U0 benefits from a better power consumption in active mode and low power modes as well as innovative and versatile ways to wake-up from low-power modes.
Integrated features:
The STM32U0 embeds a lot of features: segment display, a high number of analog peripherals: ADC, DAC, comparators and Opamps and an essential security set for firmware code protection.
Cost effectiveness:
STM32U0 is an entry cost product and offered at an attractive price point.In addition, due to integrated high oscillators, the STM32U0 removes the use of external crystal to lower the total BOM cost.
Electronics Era: What does STM32U0 series provides for power consumption, functionality, and cost for battery-powered devices?
Sridhar: STM32U0 mainly inherits the low-power control unit, analog peripherals, highly demanded LCD controller from the popular STM32L4 series and security features from STM32U5. In fact STM32U0 embeds essential features of theses famous products. This helps to get an optimized product in terms of price, but also ease migration for customers already using STM32Lx or STM32Ux family.
Electronics Era: How does STM32U0 contributes to the sustainable approach?
Sridhar: STM32U0 is labeled Sustainable Technology. It was designed in an eco-friendly way and contributes to making applications more sustainable.
By reducing power consumption in end devices, STM32U0 contributes to reducing the carbon footprint.
Electronics Era: When will the STM32U0 be available?
Sridhar: The STM32U0 full portfolio is available now! The samples and kits are available and in stock. It corresponds to wafer level scale package: WLCSP27 and WLCSP42.
Electronics Era: Is ST committed to improving MCU performance in line with market needs, and what are ST’s plans for products related to the Cortex-M85?
Sridhar: To deliver ever-increasing performance and capabilities for demanding embedded applications, ST plans to offer new STM32 family series with higher performance and also Arm Cortex-M85 based products in our product roadmap, we empower developers to create next-generation solutions that push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Electronics Era: Can the STM32H7R/S high-performance MCU facilitate the advancement of Edge AI applications? As AI technology evolves and Edge AI applications diversify, what performance demands will this place on MCUs?
Sridhar: The STM32H7R/S are ideally suited for embedded Edge AI applications, utilizing STM32 AI solutions like STM32Cube.AI, which is an AI model optimizer for STM32 MCU, as well as NanoEdge AI that enables the integration of machine learning models with on-device learning capabilities into STM32 MCU. To meet the growing needs of Edge AI applications, key enablers such as hardware accelerators, AI application development tools, and built-in security features are all crucial.
