STMicroelectronics has extended support for Microsoft Azure RTOS in the STM32Cube development environment – covering additional high-performance, conventional, ultra-low-power and wireless microcontrollers (MCUs) from the STM32 family.
Users can leverage the strengths of Azure RTOS, the convenience of the STM32Cube, and the flexibility of the STM32 family to optimize MCU properties, now choosing from over 700 MCUs in the STM32 Arm Cortex-M portfolio.
With this extension, there are dedicated software packages for mainstream STM32G0, ultra-low power STM32L4, STM32L4+, STM32L5 and STM32U5; High power STM32G4, STM32F4, STM32F7 and STM32H7; Wireless STM32WL; and STM32WB MCUs.
STM32Cube simplifies development with Azure RTOS as a standalone package or as add-on configurable components. The Azure RTOS suite is fully supported in the STM32CubeIDE tool and STM32CubeMX launcher, which can directly configure Azure RTOS components.
ST has added free code samples that help speed development and includes several demo projects that are ready to run on STM32 Nucleo boards, Discovery kits, and evaluation boards. The code can be accessed alternatively on STMicroelectronics' Github.
The Azure RTOS suite comprises a comprehensive and consistent middleware offering for embedded projects. It includes the ThreadX real-time operating system, which takes up minimal memory space, and the FileX fault-tolerant FAT file system with LevelX wear leveling for NAND and NOR Flash memories.
The set also comes with industrial-grade NetX Duo TCP/IP stacks and USBX USB stack with host and device support.
Support across the broader STM32 ecosystem helps quickly address engineering challenges and includes the STM32 MCU WiKi and a dedicated Azure RTOS topic in the online ST developer community.
