Unit - III

Introduction to STM32 and Arm

Microcontrollers

Reference:
Muhammad Ali Mazidi, Sarmad Naimi, SepehrNaimi, “The stm32f103 arm
microcontroller and embedded systems: Using assembly and c", 1st Edition,
MicroDigitalEd, 2020
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• ST is a multinational
company
– STM8: 8-bit MCUs
– STM32: 32-bit MCUs
based on Arm
• Low prices
• Various chips

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STM32F103C6T
type series package
family Sub Pin Flash
series count size
Family
Names of the new Arm Sub series
products of ST begin with Chips with higher sub-series
STM32. numbers have richer
configurations
Type
L: Low Power Series
F: Mainstream (Foundation) 0: Cortex-M0
H: High performance 1,2: Cortex-M3
W: Wireless 3,4: Cortex-M4
7: Cortex-M7

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STM32F103C6T
type series package
family Sub Pin Flash
series count size

Pin count
F G K T S C R V Z
Number 20 28 32 36 44 48 64 100 144
of pins

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STM32F103C6T
type series package
family Sub Pin Flash
series count size

Flash size
4 6 8 B C D E F G H I
Group Low Medium density High density
density
Flash 16K 32K 64K 128K 256K 384K 512K 768K 1M 1.5M 2M

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STM32F103C6T
type series package
family Sub Pin Flash
series count size

Package
H: BGA (Ball Grid Array)
T:LQFP (Low-profile Quad Flat Pack)
U:QFN (Quad Flat No-leads)
Y:WLCSP

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F: Main stream (Foundation)

STM32F429AIH6 STM32F103C6T6 STM32F031K6U6

1 === Series: CortexM3 0 === Series: CortexM0

4 === Series: CortexM4
C === Pin count: 48 K === Pin count: 32
A === Pin count: 169
6 === Flash size: 32K 6 === Flash size: 32K
I === Flash size: 2M
T === Package: T:LQFP U === Package: U:QFN
H === Package: H:
(Low-profile Quad Flat (Quad Flat No-leads)
BGA (Ball Grid Array)
Pack)
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