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ST40 Microcontrollers - Overview

ST40 Products


  ST40 is a RISC 32-Bit microprocessor based on the SH-4 core (360Mips @ 200MHz). With the introduction of the ST40RA, the SH-4 now becomes available for a wide range of applications.

Major Investments:
STMicroelectronics is one of the leading promoters of the SuperH™ architecture, which has become popular in the gaming, automotive and consumer markets.
The ST40RA is the first device in a new family of General Purpose MPUs for the Car, Industrial and Telecom markets.
Applications   Key Benefits
Car Infotainment System
ADSL Gateway / SOHO
Single Board Computer
Hi-End Motor Control / Vector Drive
Home Automation

  Cost effective superscalar 32-bit RISC SH-4 coe (360Mips @ 200MHz) with onboard cache and MMU
Low Power consumption
Dense code with 16-bit instruction set
Powerful FPU with a 128-bit vector engine delivering up to 1.2 GFLOPS
Dual memory bus with high-speed 64-bit DDR SDRAM bus supporting 2 Gbytes of memory and 32-bit versatile peripheral interface supporting Flash, SRAM, SDRAM and MPX
Five-channel DMA supporting linked lists and 1D/2D block moves
High-performance PCI interface
Embedded peripherals:
-two UARTs with FIFO
-three timers
-real-time clock and watchdog
-24 general purpose I/Os
372 BGA package
Extensive tools and OS support
Development Tools
The ST40 benefits from the extensive support of SH4 core by all the major vendors of software development tools and operating systems.

STMicroelectronics also provides cost-effective hardware tools and royalty-free software for product evaluation and fast prototyping.


ST40RA-Eval
Software Tools From ST
C/C++ toolchain based on GNU tools, and cross development environment with debugger and simulator
Royalty-free small-footprint real-time kernel with task management, memory management, interrupt management, timers, semaphores and message queues
 
Hardware Tools From ST
Host-target interface allowing connection between an Ethernet, parallel port or USB based host to an ST40 development board
ST40 evaluation board
 
Third Parties
Tools supporting SH4 can be found on http://www.superh.com.

ST has an extended partnership with some of the major software tools suppliers.


Operating Systems
WinCE.Net Microsoft
Linux OS,
HardHat version
Open Source

VxWorks, Tornado
WindRiver
  QNX
ATI Nucleus
Development Tools

Lauterbach
*TRACE32-ICD
*Compiler and debugger
*AUD trace

Imagination Technologies
*DASH-4 Hardware
*CodeScape
VxWorks, Tornado WindRiver
*VisionIce, Visionclick
*Diab compiler and RTA
Technical Support
Technical support is available on www.st.com/mcu including discussion forums, Knowledge Base, Software Download, etc...