Under the terms of the agreement, makers will be able to access the STM32 family of MCUs, as well as the company’s portfolio of sensing, power and connectivity products.
The first product of the STAR programme – ST and Arduino – is the STAR Otto baseboard, designed around the STM32F469 MCU, the Chrom-ART graphics accelerator and a MIPI DSI display interface. STAR Otto also provides a preintegrated wireless link, an ST MEMS microphone and the necessary open-source drivers.
The cooperation between the two companies is aiming to deliver a range of Arduino shields, with DSI display and NFC reader shields planned for Q2 2016 and a Sensor shield is scheduled for the second half of 2016. The company adds that several of its STM32 Nucleo expansion boards and software libraries have been ported to the Arduino Integrated Development Environment and can be used with the STAR Otto baseboard.
