STMicroelectronics has released a feature-rich development board for creating diverse applications with STM32H5 microcontrollers (MCUs). STM32H5 devices are ideal for high-performance processing and advanced security in a wide range of applications, including smart sensors, smart appliances, industrial controllers, networking equipment, personal electronics and medical devices.
The STM32H573I-DK Discovery Kit allows developers to explore all of the STM32H5's built-in features, such as analog peripherals, timers, ST ART (Adaptive Real-Time) accelerator, media interfaces, and math accelerators. This makes it easier to evaluate new designs for industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs), motor drives and smart controllers for appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators and washing machines. Other potential applications include alarm controllers, communication centers and smart lighting controls.
The Discovery STM32H573I-DK kit is a versatile development board that includes an STM32H5 microcontroller, color touch display, digital microphone and interfaces such as USB, Ethernet and Wi-Fi ® . The board also has an audio codec, flash memory and connectors for connecting expansion shields and daughter cards.
To simplify the development process, the STM32CubeH5 MCU software package consolidates all components needed to develop an application on the STM32H5, including examples and application code. The package is fully integrated into the STM32Cube ecosystem, which contains additional software to aid application development. ST also offers the STM32CubeMX tool to configure and initialize the MCU.
STM32H5, released in March 2023, features the Arm Cortex-M33 embedded microcontroller core running at 250 MHz and is the first microcontroller to support ST's Secure Manager system-on-chip security solutions. The MCUs combine Arm TrustZone security with ST's STM32Trust framework to provide trusted storage, encryption, attestation, and updates. They incorporate side-channel secured hardware cryptographic accelerators and target recognized security certifications, PSA Certified Level 3 and GlobalPlatform SESIP3.
ST created the STM32H573I-DK Discovery kit with examples that show how to use security services and integrated all necessary software tools and support into the STM32Cube development ecosystem.