ST augments Chinese digital lifestyle

This year, ST’s booth offers an IoT experience based on the company’s broad portfolio of key components for the full range of applications, including wearables, healthcare, wellness, smart home, smart city and the smart car. The ST demonstrations at electronica China 2015 include:

• A comprehensive range of the 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 and M0+, Cortex-M3, Cortex-M4 and Cortex-M7 STM32 MCUs with a great choice of peripherals. The 600+-part STM32 family includes the STM32L0,  STM32L1 and STM32L4 ultra-low-power MCU series that target battery-operated / wearable devices;
• ST’s sensor portfolio includes MEMS such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, digital compasses, inertial modules, pressure sensors, humidity sensors, microphones and actuators; and smart sensors and sensor hubs including UV-index sensors, temperature sensors and touch sensors;
• ST’s BlueNRG ultra-low-power network processors embed the whole BLE master and slave stack addressing BLE and Bluetooth Smart solutions. The BlueNRG devices combine best-in-class current consumption, excellent wireless-link performance and on-chip non-volatile memory that suits quick and easy firmware updates;
• A comprehensive portfolio of tags that includes Dual-Interface EEPROM, NFC/RFID transceivers, and NFC/RFID tags that are based on the 13.56MHz carrier frequency and support the ISO 14443 and ISO 15693 RFID standards;
• Solutions specifically designed for automotive and connected-car applications including powertrain, ECUs, infotainment systems including navigation, car body electronics (lighting, heating, cooling, door modules, seat control), active- and passive-safety systems, steering and chassis solutions and EV/HEV solutions for charging, driving motors and energy recovery;
• Solutions that make factories, buildings and many of the machines and appliances in them more power-efficient and autonomous. ST’s broad portfolio encompasses advanced power-conversion solutions, intelligent digital input/outputs, SPIN motion-control solutions, smart-metering and STLUX LED drivers.
• ST’s FlightSense technology-based products are packaged in a module that integrates a proximity-sensing Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) array and an Ambient Light Sensor (ALS), together with a Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) light source, greatly easing the product integration for the equipment manufacturer. Using the ToF principle, the FlightSense sensors output a high-accuracy absolute-range measure for a wide spectrum of applications that require competitive system cost, small package footprint and low power consumption. Among these possible uses are industrial control, distance measurement in white goods, any type of robots, on-board computer control with gesture, proximity and light detection, robot cleaners, proximity sensing and autofocus assist in smartphones and tablets.

The IoT is widely accepted as the “Next Big Thing” and a burgeoning new market. Most closely impacting our lives, Smart Home and Smart Wearable are among the fastest growing IoT segments. Johnson Cao, Sr. Marketing Manager at STMicroelectronics’ Greater China Region will deliver a speech at the International Embedded System Innovation Forum co-located with electronica China 2015. He will talk about success stories and reference designs based on the 32-bit STM32 MCUs in a number of IoT/wearable applications including smart watches and smart bands, sensor hubs, smart home appliances and weather stations, WiFi modules, smart metering and smart medical. The International Embedded System Innovation Forum is taking place on Wednesday, 18th March from 09:00 to 11:45 at Room M24 in Hall E3, 2F, Shanghai New International Expo Center.