 And we live. Hi. Hi. Hello, my name is Bertrandenis. I'm product marketing on STM32 Ultralow Power Product. And you're launching the STM32 U5. So this is a very special new low power CPU? Exactly. So we are very excited by this news and we are sampling the STM32 U5, which is our new STM32 Ultralow Power flagship. And we really think that this product is very interesting and is a game changer for a lot of applications. So it's got the ARM Cortex M33 in there. And what's the target market? Is it millions of IoT devices? Yes. So basically it targets applications like IoT, but also industrial with industrial sensors as well as automation. And in fact, all the applications where really poor consumption is very important. And you already have two billion Ultralow Power STM32 shipped. So the Ultralow Power is a specific segment, right? Where you are, because you have the higher performance ones. Yeah, we have high performance product. We have a mainstream product and Ultralow Power and wireless. And yes, Ultralow Power is all about where the power consumption is key. Where you need to either increase the battery lifetime or to use a lower battery, a smaller battery. And yeah, we are very glad to say that we already shipped more than two billions of STM32 Ultralow Power since the beginning. So in fact, the history starts in 2009 where we launched the STM32 L1. At that time, I mean all the competitions were using 8 or 16 bits. And our vision there was to say that the Cortex M with 32 bits give a great benefit. And we saw the success and since then we introduced new products. Then we introduced the STM32 L0, which associates low power and cost effective. Then we introduced the STM32 L4, which was a disruptive product, basic class in poor consumption and adding performance dimension. The STM32 L4 Plus, we stretched this with family bringing even more performance and enhanced graphic capabilities. And finally, last year we introduced the STM32 L5 bringing more security. And so where our STM32 U5 is our first product based on 14 nanometers, Ultralow Power, based on 14 nanometers. And we work a lot in order to again decrease dramatically the power consumption. And so not only the technology, but all the architecture to really provide a unique product, which gives basic class inter-power consumption, but also a very good performance for a neutral or power product. It's you got more than 240 drives on MIPS and as well as NN security. So that's the reason why we think that's a very interesting product. So here's some examples of where it could be used. Stuff like even fitness bands or IoT point of sale, medical monitoring. It's a lot of different markets. Exactly. In fact, well, all the product were battery operating. And we see more and more requests for this power consumption requirements, but also more requests because now the products become more and more complex. And you need more memory. You need more advanced peripherals. And you need also more security. I mean, at the end it's connected to the web and you need to really protect your asset. And that's also some key features that we are bringing with STM32 U5. So this is coming in September, right? So then as soon as now, but it's coming quite soon. Yeah. So in fact, we are really sampling to lead customers. So for people interesting, they can contact their ST micro electronics representative. But yeah, it will be fully available, what we call mass market. It means available at all distributor stock in September this year. Is it on 14 nanometer? Is that a big deal in terms of this market to get even lower power consumption, higher performance? Yes. The main challenge was to, in fact, decrease the power consumption. So active mode. So you get it quite easily with 14 nanometers for the active power consumption. But then we really work on the power management as well. The main challenge was to keep very low power in terms of low power mode, like standby, stop mode. And the problem is that when you decrease the geometry of a transistor, then the leakage increase. We work a lot in order to keep the low power mode at the same level as the previous product. So we are in the range of 100 nano amp in shutdown mode. Or if you keep everything in stop mode in a few microns. So again, this is really something that the main challenge was there to really keep the power consumption as low as possible. And also to give new architecture, now we have what we call the LPBAM, the low power burst autonomous mode. Where you can have the peripherals autonomous where you are in stop mode. So you can be in the range of microns and still have peripherals and DMA working. So you can have, for example, a one gyroscope connected to I2C or SPI. So you can get the data, you can say I want to get the data each 10 milliseconds, for example. And wake up the system only each second to compute the data. Again, from great benefit for power consumption. And the same story if you want to use the ADC, so to measure an analog external voltage. Or if you want to use a digital microphone. Automatically you will get the data from digital microphone while you're in stop mode. And you can say I want to wake up if, for example, I have 70 dB of signal. Or if you want to program a signal to noise ratio, for example. So again, a great benefit in terms of power consumption. So I guess there's a lot of consideration in terms of how you get so low in terms of power consumption. Do you want things to last for months and months on a battery sometimes? In some situations maybe where they're like in standby. Is that the idea? Yes, exactly. So whatever is your application. So you know, depending on the application, you have system where you have to wake up. Or if you have to monitor, you have to be active all the time. Or if you have, I don't know, a metering, so a kind of flow meter where you have to get measurements. Let's say each 100 milliseconds or each 10 milliseconds. Whatever the duty cycle of your application, you will get a great benefit. I mean the lower power consumption of your system. There are several benchmarks available in the market where it's called embassy. If you want to show this slide, it's just after again. And in fact, there is a way to measure next again, sorry. And next one, yes. Where you have what is called ULP Bench. So it's from embassy. So there are several benchmarks where you measure and you can certify the score and the higher the better. In fact, it's the inverse of the energy and there are several benchmarks available in fact for. So there is what is called the secure mark where you have to execute cryptography to process and the higher the better. And if you look at the score obtained, it's by far the best score known in the market. As well for the core mark, so for core mark you execute the core mark all the time. So it's typically an application where we are most of the time active or 100% of the time active. And we get also 58, which is something really now the top score known as well as peripheral profiles or CP. So PP stands for peripheral profile. So you have to wake up each second, execute code and use as well peripheral like ADC, SPI, etc. And you measure the energy, you make the inverse of the energy and it gives you a score of the higher the better. And again, all the scores of CP and PP shows, I mean, it is the only product in the market, microcontroller in the market, which is either score number one or one of the top three product. And if you compare, I mean, in terms of performance, it is really excellent. And if you want to show maybe in the next slide, so in addition to best in class in terms of power consumption, you don't have to choose between power consumption and performance on this product. So other SCM32U5, also it's the best in class in terms of ultra low power microcontroller in terms of performance. In addition to the best power consumption, it's you have an increase of performance that nobody has in the market thanks to the Cortex M33 running at 160 MHz. And if you did more, there is also a mathematical accelerator that you can use with FMAC and Cordic. One thing that I've been hearing for a few years is that the Cortex M33 is adding the hardware encryption or hardware security. Does that help also in the terms of that's why you have such a high encryption kind of a benchmark? Exactly. Does it help in that part also? Exactly. So we have accelerators embedded for PQA and AES, so hardware accelerator for cryptography. And PQA, that's the reason why we got so good power consumption but also performance number for cryptography thanks to these accelerators. And yes, on top of that this AES and PQA is also side attack resistance by hardware. So it means that high level of security when you are using this cryptography acceleration. So in addition to low power performance, we have enhanced capability for the U5 and the STM32 U5. The goal is to pass PSA level 3 which is a high level of certification for security as well as CZE level 3. So it will be the first product passing this two security certifications. So it proves to customers that in terms of security you can really trust this platform which is really certified at a quite high level. In fact, an unreached level for a general purpose microcontroller. Because the Cortex-M4 in the past, it was possible to do all this kind of security but it was... Is it possible to say that it was more like in a software location and now it's more like in a hardware location? What other things can you say about the accelerations and improvements maybe? Yes, so the Cortex-M43 brings you hardware isolation between trusted and untrusted. So typically you can have your application, let's say an example of either an IoT application where you have for example all the metering on one side and the communication. You can have the two software running at the same time or not the same time but on the same product but fully isolated. So and this is a key requirement because for example if your communication protocol has some issues and it can be attacked, you can really isolate so that I mean all the data is fully isolated from the rest of the world. And on top of that the STM32U5 brings better isolation and protection to hardware and side level attack. So we bring a lot of things in addition to the Cortex-M43 to increase the level of security for the STM32U5. And here on the schematic of the CPU there's a lot of things included. So a lot of options in there or there's exactly the right amount for the specific market but also there's many SKUs, right? It's going to be. Yes, exactly. So I memory size up to 2 megabyte of flash, 786 kilobytes of SRAM as well as advanced accelerators. So in addition to FMAC and Cordic, we have a Chromart accelerator for graphic capabilities. You mentioned the band or watches. So this is something which can be interesting of course. And of course, a lot of peripherals to name. For example, we have USB which can be both device and host, a crystal less, a lot of communication peripherals. 2 ADC, a lot of analog, a lot of timers, I mean a lot of things integrated. And for a large choice of packages from 48 PIN up to 169 and including a small wafer level CSP package which is about 4x4 mm. So people can choose 24 variants among 24 variants. Yes, so we are addressing about 60,000 of customers and each application is different, each customer is different. So we need to as much as possible to offer a large variety because customers are different, applications are different. And they need something, they have several constraints etc. That's the reason why we offer a so large portfolio because at the end, yes. I mean, there are a lot of variety in terms of requirements from a customer point of view. Is it possible, is it public knowledge which of these segments is like the biggest market or for ST or... I guess the ultra low power MCU is like one of the most important or the most like in demand or like the biggest... Yes, yes, but I mean this is really shared. I mean we can say that high performance microcontroller also is something which is booming a lot as you can imagine with AI etc. And I mean offering more performance is key for a lot of applications. Mainstream, yes it's also key because as you can imagine it's really low cost product etc. So this is also booming because microcontroller is everywhere. And where less connectivity is key. So this is, I mean all the four areas are really key pillars for ST micro electronics. What would you say about the autonomous mode? What does that mean? And what does it do? Yeah, it means that you can be in range of microamps and you can get the data from an external device. So it can be a gyroscope, whatever through I2C or SPI or ADC or UART. And you can get the data autonomously and the DMA will work autonomously and get the data. It's again a benefit in terms of power consumption and you don't have to have the Cortex-M43 waking up to get the data or to go and sleep etc. So it's a benefit in terms of power consumption. And this slide right here talks about also the different modes. Exactly. So large shops of power consumption are available on this device. So it's really to name but a few but in fact there are much more. Where we can go from shutdown mode at 100 nanoA but also standby or stop mode where you just stop your software and execute the next instruction in less than a few microseconds. So it's a great benefit in terms of energy for the customer. You don't lose anything and you have now more flexibility. You can choose other to select all the SRAM which is 786 kilobytes on this device down to no SRAM etc. So and of course the active mode is impressive down to 19 microamps per megahertz. I've got a question here. Yes, SIMD operations look promising. How does it stack up to neon extension? Yeah, in fact it's not a neon extension. I mean it's neon is more for MPUs. So we don't have this kind of features available on this product. So yeah the Cortex-M43 provides several versus the Cortex-M4. We have 20% more of performance versus the Cortex-M4 when we are running at the same frequency. So yes, definitely this is interesting features to have the Cortex-M43 in terms of performance and in terms of efficiency. And here I have another question. Are today's ARM Cortex CPUs Windows friendly? I'm showing you a slide where you're talking about Azure. So it's connecting to the Microsoft Azure cloud system for example. What other software can you talk about that it can run? So the STM42U5 comes with the Azure RTOS by nature. So it means that you have all these firmware available and fully free on STM42U5. But I mean then you can as you still have for example free RTOS available and all what we use to have. So all our offer concerning for example the graphic with the touch FX or motor control or whatever. So as you know on the STM42U we are offering a large portfolio in terms of ecosystem which are free. And in addition to that now Azure RTOS comes with library for USB, for file system, a lot of stuff which are high level of quality. The STM32Cube is that like a software ecosystem that makes it easy to implement different softwares on it? Yeah in fact STM32Cube is both the embedded software and also the tools. So then for the tool it's called STM32Cube MX for example. So you for example you select your product U5 I want to have to use this package etc. So very easy to select it and then you say okay I'm going to use this peripherals etc. I will using this IOS so all the setup will be done automatically. I mean by a graphic user interface and then it will generate your code. And then you can route your own code again to ease our customer life. And of course we have also the CUBE IDE so it is our own IDE tool which is free. And we have also CUBE programmer which is a tool to easily program your part. What are we looking at here with the Twilio? Yes so we are proud to say that Twilio has selected the STM32U5 as a reference for Microvisor. And also we are proud to say that Microsoft has selected as reference board for the Microsoft Azure Certified Device Program, the Discovery Kit using the STM32U5. Again it proves that they selected this because they think that really the unique combination of ultra low power performance but as well integration and enhanced security is key for the customers. And right here if you go to the next slide it says sampling now mass market September. Yes exactly. So it's planned to have all the ecosystem, all the kits in stock, all the samples in September this year. And now we are sampling to customers so feel free to contact your distributor or your ST macroeutronic contact to us to embed to alpha program. Don't hesitate to contact us. And there's a video also people can check on your YouTube channel with more talk about this CPU and there's going to be lots of stuff on your website I guess. Yes exactly. So already on the ST.com you can find of course the data brief, flyers, I mean a lot of information available as well as video to know exactly what is this device to have more detail on this product. What do you think is a little bit like the response that you're seeing from the industry is it's a hotly anticipated the next gen level of product that many people are going to embrace you think? Yes I think so. I mean here our duty as ST macroeutronics is to provide the best product so that our customer can design a product that will change life in fact. So we are here to provide the bricks to provide the best products and then it's our customer who are designing a lot of applications. I mean something really incredible both for industrial, consumer, medical etc. We are always surprised by all the ideas and what but at the end the customers are doing and at the end all the end product that we are everybody is using so that's great. And you were mentioning 60,000 companies that's a lot of people working in innovating ideas startups that's going to put a thousand startups with ideas just with this part. No it's for ACM32 in general we have more than 60,000 customers for this part we have already we have seen a lot of interest so we have already several dozens of customers using the part and designing and that will be in production already this year with this product. Alright so even though this is a digital only embedded world you are doing everything to network with everybody who is looking forward to this so they can soon maybe get some boards they can work with. Some people like the biggest customers can already get them now or it's coming it will come eventually. Yes yes yes we have already some kits what we call alpha or beta kits so this is not the production one but very close and so that the customer can evaluate and start their design etc. So yes embedded world is strange this year so this is a different story than the other years but we try as much as possible to stay in contact with all our customers. How does it feel to work on chipsets that get out there and that can change the world and that you might like without actually knowing but there are like in all kinds of devices everywhere. It's a big responsibility that ST has no? Yes yes I mean that's really exciting I mean this is really you can see Patrick speaking in the video now he's the design director and he can really say that testify that all the people who has worked on this product was very exciting because we know that this product was waiting by a lot of customers and yeah all the people were very motivated and this is really I mean speaking honestly I mean the STM32 team is amazing and we have all the people are really passionate with our job and we try as much possible to do our best and that's yeah there's a lot of motivation here. And I guess it's a multi year process to get to the stage like it takes a while to optimize everything and the timing has to be right. The process note has to be ready to make it like in a mass production and then I guess it has to be affordable right those chips they have to. The cost is a very low cost for a chip that can last 10 years in production. We guarantee at least 10 years but in reality it has never been 10 years. 10 years that's minimum and the F1 which has been launched in 2007 I mean it's still here of course and so it's more than 15 years now and it will not stop so I mean yes this is really important that we make sure that all this product will stay long time. And I guess the whole software ecosystem and everything just keeps getting more optimized, tweaked and easier to use and a year by year. I guess over the past year there's been a lot of work like you've been busy right even though everybody's working from home. Oh yes yes and of course ecosystem I mean we see that ecosystem is more and more key and that's the reason why we invested a lot so that's the reason why we have now our own idea. That's the reason why we improved a lot our offer in terms of tools because at the end of the day what is important for our customers is to bring their value. Okay so the setting of peripherals etc I mean it's not added value for them so we need to make the system or the development of their software shorter as possible so that they concentrate on their value. And I guess it means investing a lot in open source. You want to provide stuff that people can easily access on Github and stuff like that or? Yes yes so we launched I think it was one year ago the STM32 Github. So in addition to the official delivery there is also a Github where everybody can participate etc etc. And I mean in terms of license what we offer is really very open and so that everybody can reuse it without any constraints. And the discovery board with the U5 is not announced yet or is it going to be like usually it's affordable development boards that people can get to start working with. Yeah so our idea as always to be to say that the discovery kit or nuclear kit or evaluation kit I mean is it a promotion tool I mean this is something that we offer to people so that they can really design quickly. So the discovery kit of the U5 you can see on the website there is a data brief available you can see exactly what is inside. It's not available fully you cannot order it at distributor stock yet it will be in September. But you can now have a look of what will be this kit it's what we call the IoT Kit V2. So the IoT Kit V1 which was with L4 had hit a great success in the market and now it's version 2 with the U5 and with some interesting features at the end and of course okay it will support Microsoft Azure. Microsoft Azure again has selected this IoT Kit as their main platform and is going to certify everything using this board. So. Maybe this is what people can see on your website I guess. Yes it's tools and software you select tools and software here you have. Okay yeah but people can find it on your website. Yes, yes. And if they place an order it's maybe a little bit later. Yes it's not available yet it will be on September for everybody. Alright so thanks a lot for doing this interview at your embedded world booth. Thank you. Alright thanks for showing and talking about it and thanks everybody for watching.