ST has announced a new born in the discovery line, based on STM32F429ZIT6 microcontroller, with 64Mbit SDRAM and a QVGA display on board!

The new stm32f429 discovery baord key features are impressive:

• STM32F429ZIT6 microcontroller featuring 2 MB of Flash memory, 256 KB of RAM in an LQFP144 package
• On-board ST-LINK/V2 with selection mode switch to use the kit as a standalone
• ST-LINK/V2 (with SWD connector for programming and debugging)
• Board power supply: through the USB bus or from an external 3 V or 5 V supply voltage
• 2.4″ QVGA TFT LCD
• SDRAM 64 Mbits
• L3GD20, ST MEMS motion sensor, 3-axis digital output gyroscope
• Six LEDs:
• LD1 (red/green) for USB communication
• LD2 (red) for 3.3 V power-on
• Two user LEDs:LD3 (green), LD4 (red)
• Two USB OTG LEDs:LD5 (green) VBUS and LD6 (red) OC (over-current)
• Two pushbuttons (user and reset)
• USB OTG with micro-AB connector
• Extension header for LQFP144 I/Os for a quick connection to the prototyping board and an easy probing

Like every Discovery board, it come with a huge amount of samples and the Standard Peripheral Library to start development with ease, also an ST-Link/V2 is embedded.

All of this for about 24$, less than an Arduino Uno…

For more information on the official page, click here

The microprocessor is also a best-of-class:

High-performance and DSP with FPU, ARM Cortex-M4 MCU with 2 Mbytes Flash, 180 MHz CPU, Art Accelerator, SDRAM, TFT

Full specs:

• Core: ARM 32-bit Cortex™-M4 CPU with FPU, Adaptive real-time accelerator (ART Accelerator™) allowing 0-wait state execution from Flash memory, frequency up to 180 MHz, MPU, 225 DMIPS/1.25 DMIPS/MHz (Dhrystone 2.1), and DSP instructions
• Memories
• Up to 2 MB of Flash memory organized into two banks allowing read-while-write
• Up to 256+4 KB of SRAM including 64-KB of CCM (core coupled memory) data RAM
• Flexible external memory controller with up to 32-bit data bus: SRAM,PSRAM,SDRAM, Compact Flash/NOR/NAND memories
• LCD parallel interface, 8080/6800 modes
• LCD-TFT controller up to SVGA resolution with dedicated Chrom-ART Accelerator™ for enhanced graphic content creation (DMA2D)
• Clock, reset and supply management
• 1.8 V to 3.6 V application supply and I/Os
• POR, PDR, PVD and BOR
• 4-to-26 MHz crystal oscillator
• Internal 16 MHz factory-trimmed RC (1% accuracy)
• 32 kHz oscillator for RTC with calibration
• Internal 32 kHz RC with calibration
• Sleep, Stop and Standby modes
• V_BATsupply for RTC, 20×32 bit backup registers + optional 4 KB backup SRAM
• 3×12-bit, 2.4 MSPS ADC: up to 24 channels and 7.2 MSPS in triple interleaved mode
• 2×12-bit D/A converters
• General-purpose DMA: 16-stream DMA controller with FIFOs and burst support
• Up to 17 timers: up to twelve 16-bit and two 32-bit timers up to 180 MHz, each with up to 4 IC/OC/PWM or pulse counter and quadrature (incremental) encoder input
• Debug mode
• Serial wire debug (SWD)& JTAG interfaces
• Cortex-M4 Embedded Trace Macrocell™
• Up to 168 I/O ports with interrupt capability
• Up to 164 fast I/Os up to 90 MHz
• Up to 166 5 V-tolerant I/Os
• Up to 21 communication interfaces
• Up to 3 × I²C interfaces (SMBus/PMBus)
• Up to 4 USARTs/4 UARTs (11.25 Mbit/s, ISO7816 interface, LIN, IrDA, modem control)
• Up to 6 SPIs (45 Mbits/s), 2 with muxed full-duplex I²S for audio class accuracy via internal audio PLL or external clock
• 1 x SAI (serial audio interface)
• 2 × CAN (2.0B Active) and SDIO interface
• Advanced connectivity
• USB 2.0 full-speed device/host/OTG controller with on-chip PHY
• USB 2.0 high-speed/full-speed device/host/OTG controller with dedicated DMA, on-chip full-speed PHY and ULPI
• 10/100 Ethernet MAC with dedicated DMA: supports IEEE 1588v2 hardware, MII/RMII
• 8- to 14-bit parallel camera interface up to 54 MBs/s
• True random number generator
• CRC calculation unit
• 96-bit unique ID
• RTC: subsecond accuracy, hardware calendar

For more information on the official page, click here