2020-01-28 04:13 AM
I wonder when the STM32H7A/7B documentation will be available.
The L5 documentation was released more than a year ago, and L5 is not yet available in stock at distributors. H7A / H7B are in stock and there is no sign of the documentation!
2020-01-28 07:51 AM
There is Embedded World 25th - 27th of Feb. I'd bet the official release of H7A/H7B will be there ...
And hopefully ST will have completed the paperwork for export by this time.
2020-01-28 08:41 AM
Thing is the more technically astute customers, and bleeding-edge users, have a far more direct relationship with sales and support, and access to silicon and documentation that is embargoed under NDA.
You're asking the wrong people, in the wrong place.
2020-01-28 09:42 AM
Out of curiosity, I did a search on Google for STM32H7A and came across an ST GUI presentation in Chinese which had the following blurb (after translating it from Chinese):
Built-in large capacity SRAM optimizes BOM cost
• Supports HVGA 16bpp or WVGA 8 bpp without external RAM
Advanced graphics features
• Chrom-ART ™
• JPEG decoder
• TFT controller interface
• Chrom-GRC ™
Rich package
• QFP, BGA and CSP
• Support graphics interface from QFP64
HVGA @ 16bpp = 307200 bytes
WVGA @ 8bpp = 384000 bytes
So, RAM must be 512KB or higher if they support multiple simultaneous frame buffers.
2020-01-28 10:45 AM
Documentation already available:
2020-01-28 01:08 PM
More RAM is very welcome. But Ethernet is missing in both H7A and H7B variants.
What add-on Ethernet options exist for these chips?
-- pa
2020-01-28 04:50 PM
A good choice would be the W5500 SPI ethernet controller from Wiznet. You have the option to use its internal tcp-ip stack in hardware, and the option to use it as normal ethernet controller using a software tcp-ip stack as the LwIP.
I think that the STM32H7B3-DK has a wi-fi module. So I believe that ST planned these chips for wireless and GUI applications.