STM32F205RGY, where to get some ?

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July 24, 2013
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Posted on July 24, 2013 at 17:50

Hello,

I'd like to prototype a board with a STM32F205RGY MCU ... this is the WLCSP package of the F205RG.

Seems I can't find it on any distributor site ...

Thomas.

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Nickname12657_O

Associate III

Posted on July 25, 2013 at 00:20

Dear gentlemen,

You are probably right, I do not remember if these famous small WLCSP packages are stocked in our disty shelves. We are serving directly our customers from STMicro warehouses. Indeed, we are selling Millions of these STM32F2 WLCSPs for consumers applications for small factor designs.

Here is one of the famous design developped by SONY and opened for the community :

http://developer.sonymobile.com/services/open-smartwatch-project/

STM32F2 reference APIs :

http://http://developer.sonymobile.com/services/open-smartwatch-project/smartwatch-hacker-guide/

Cheers,

STOne-32

rootAuthor

Associate III

Posted on July 25, 2013 at 09:44

Hello,

I'm happy to know this chip really exists (I already know the Sony watch had one).

But that doesn't really answer my question ... where can I buy a few for prototyping ?

Or is that a gentle way to reply the traditional answer : ''you'r not big enough to be interesting''. I guess if I were Sony I'd already have the samples in my mailbox ;)

Thomas.

PS : I've already sold about 10k STM32F205R chips in the QFP version in my designs.

Tesla DeLorean

Guru

Posted on July 25, 2013 at 17:28

It must be a regional thing, I think I could find at least two distributors here who'd push in part requests for me. Interest/support tends to be logarithmic, but 10K is enough to be taken quite seriously. Wafer scale stuff would certainly be more specialized, if your current distribution/rep contacts aren't fighting for you, find some other hungrier ones.

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