STM internal peripheral

1 Article purpose

The purpose of this article is to:

briefly introduce the STM peripheral and its main features
indicate the level of security supported by this hardware block
explain how each instance can be allocated to the three runtime contexts and linked to the corresponding software components
explain, when necessary, how to configure the STM peripheral.

2 Peripheral overview

The STM peripheral is used to log STM trace into the embedded trace FIFO (ETF). This trace can include hardware events (the list is given in the STM32MP15 reference manuals) or direct 'printf like' log from the Cortex^®-A7. Once in the ETF buffer, the trace can directly be dumped from the Cortex^®-A7 or to the trace port interface unit (TPIU), connected to an external probe able to decode it.

2.1 Features

Refer to the STM32MP15 reference manuals for the complete list of features, and to the software components, introduced below, to see which features are really implemented.

2.2 Security support

The STM is a non secure peripheral.

3 Peripheral usage and associated software

3.1 Boot time

The STM is not used at boot time.

3.2 Runtime

3.2.1 Overview

The STM can be assigned to the Cortex^®-A7 non-secure for using in Linux with coresight framework.
This driver allows to select the hardware events (listed in the STM32MP15 reference manuals) to log via the STM peripheral into the ETF and dump it in the Linux console for analysis.

3.2.2 Software frameworks

Internal peripherals software table template

| Trace & Debug
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3.2.3 Peripheral configuration

The configuration is applied by the firmware running in the context to which the peripheral is assigned. The configuration can be done alone via the STM32CubeMX tool for all internal peripherals, and then manually completed (particularly for external peripherals), according to the information given in the corresponding software framework article.

3.2.4 Peripheral assignment

Internal peripherals assignment table template

| rowspan="1" | Trace & Debug
| rowspan="1" | STM
| STM
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