STM32 celebrates 10 years of innovation

[Thomas Borowczak]

Posted on July 03, 2017 at 17:16

STM32 celebrates 10 years of innovation

From STM32F1, the world first 32-bit ARM� Cortex�-M MCU announced on June 11th to STM32H7, the world most efficient MCU released in 2017, the STM32 ARM� Cortex�-M microcontroller has grown into a large product family and a wide ecosystem of tools and software to become a market leader. Let?s come back on 10 of the main achievements that paved the road to this success through the last 10 years.From STM32F1, the world first 32-bit ARM� Cortex�-M MCU announced on June 11th to STM32H7, the world most efficient MCU released in 2017, the STM32 ARM� Cortex�-M microcontroller has grown into a large product family and a wide ecosystem of tools and software to become a market leader. Let?s come back on 10 of the main achievements that paved the road to this success through the last 10 years.

1. From the first 1st 72 Mhz / 20 Kbyte Cortex-M3 up to 400 MHz / 2 Mbytes Cortex-M7 : a 10 years product journey and technological evolution 
2. A constant evolution of the portfolio to anticipate and match the market expectations in term of embedded features, performance, power consumption and cost. The STM32 family has now more than 10 series and 700 part numbers including the

   http://www.st.com/stm32h7

   , the world?s most efficient MCU in terms of processing performance (it scored 2020 in the

   http://www.eembc.org/coremark/comment.php?benchmark_seq=2539

   ) and the

   http://www.st.com/stm32l4

   , the market leader in terms of power consumption performance (It scored 253 in the

   http://www.eembc.org/ulpbench/

   (more on

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DG5mgTCz94&feature=youtu.be&list=PLnMKNibPkDnF97QnUOFGirl1q0G_4VdDc

   ).
3. A decade of business records
4. In 2010, we introduced the first

   http://www.st.com/stm32discovery

    (the STM32VLDISCOVERY) an affordable and complete solution for the evaluation of the outstanding capabilities of STM32 MCUs, followed in 2014 by the 1st

   http://www.st.com/stm32nucleo

   , the new prototypers? best friend

   .

     We have sold today more than

   http://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/about/media-center/press-item.html/t3902.html

   of these development kits.
5. In 2014, we launched the

   http://www.st.com/stm32cube

   , a 100% free software solution that help developers? live thanks to the combination of - 

   STM32CubeMX a PC

   configuration and initialization tool - STM32Cube embedded software libraries : the generic embedded software components required to develop an application (HAL, LL, middleware components, and examples). With more than 300,000 downloads and with regular releases of new functionalities, STM32Cube is now the pillar

    of the STM32 Ecosystem.

   
6. In 2017 the STM32 development ecosystem was been ranked among the top three in semiconductor companies by

   http://blog.st.com/embedded-market-study/

    (

   http://embedded.com/

   ).

7. We probably have the most complete market portfolio to address the key segments of

   • IoT for Wired and Wireless connected Objects with
     • Ultra Low Power MCUs (wireless)
     • Very high performance MCUs (wired)
     • Graphical User Interface
     • Security 
   • Industrial
     • Safety operation
     • Very High performance
   • Motor Control with expertise for Consumer, Industrial and Appliances
   • Sensing Applications (motion, audio sensing) with a complete development kit offer featuring ST Sensors
8. We have launched the

   http://www.st.com/stmcufinder

    application that enables developers to explore from their mobile device, or from their desktop, the latest microcontrollers as well as hardware and software tools to connect the complete portfolio of STM32 32-bit and STM8 8-bit microcontrollers and development boards.  
9. We have made a

   http://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/support/resources/product-longevity.html

   for the whole STM32 family, ensuring 10 years of life time for each single part number, which is a strong requirement from the industrial market in particular.
10. We have introduced the

    https://community.st.com/

    that enables customers, partners, developers, makers, schools, universities, ST employees and all ST-product enthusiasts to collaborate, connect, communicate, learn and share their insights via a powerful social community application.

While we are increasing our presence in the education, makers and hobbyist communities to make our technology even more accessible, the STM32 product portfolio and ecosystem will continue its evolution to accompany the next technology revolutions and help developers bring innovative applications on the market.

Jump on the fast train of innovation and release you creativity for another 10 years of success with STM32 !

[Andrew Neil]

This is not true!

The World's First Cortex-M microcontroller was the Stellaris from Luminary Micro - in 2006:

https://www.design-reuse.com/news/12919/luminary-micro-32-bit-microcontrollers-1-00-launch-products-arm-cortex-m3-processor.html

ST were the first of the big, established vendors - but not the first in the world.

[Tesla DeLorean]

Yes, and the Cortex-M7 one is dubious too. Depends what you're measuring. ATMEL had a 300 MHz CM7 FPU-D device, in retail and shippable, before ST's 216 MHz CM7 FPU-S device.

That fact the Joseph Yiu's book covered only the LM part is pretty telling as who won the retail space, and who was working on it first.

I've no doubt ARM plays everyone off against each other to get test silicon through the fabs.

But the M3 almost certainly was in something as early as 2004. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2004/10/19/317281/2693/en/ARM-Introduces-The-Cortex-M3-Processor-To-Deliver-High-Performance-In-Low-Cost-Applications.html

I would much prefer to see a graphs showing STM32 units delivered in each year, not cumulative totals.

#MandelaEffect