STMicroelectronics has boosted its STM23 family, adding dual 650MHz Arm Cortex-A7 cores to the existing Cortex-M4 (209MHz) to provide an upgrade path designers wishing to add Linux capability to STM32-based real-time control. The chip, called STM32MP1, gets its own open-source Linux distribution – OpenSTLinux – which contains Linux BSP, kernel, drivers, boot chain, and secure OS ...

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