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STM32MP21 peripherals overview for M33-TD flavor

Applicable for STM32MP21x lines

Trusted domain applicability
This article is only applicable to M33-TD flavor of STM32MP2 series

This article lists all internal peripherals embedded in STM32MP21x lines  and shows the assignment possibilities to the execution contexts for each one of them.
From this article, you can also access to individual peripheral articles with information related to the overview and configuration aspects.

1. Internal peripherals overview[edit | edit source]

The figure below shows all peripherals embedded in STM32MP21x lines , grouped per functional domains that are reused in many places of this wiki to structure the articles.
Several execution contexts exist on STM32MP21x lines [1], corresponding to the different Arm cores and associated security modes:

  •  Arm dual core Cortex-A35 secure  (Trustzone), running ROM code and TF-A BL2 at boot time, and running OP-TEE and/or TF-A BL31 at runtime
  •  Arm dual core Cortex-A35 non secure , running U-Boot at boot time, and running Linux at runtime
  •  Arm Cortex-M33 secure  (Trustzone), running TF-M
  •  Arm Cortex-M33 non-secure , running STM32Cube

The legend below shows how assigned and shared peripherals are identified in the assignment diagram that follows:


  • When a peripheral box owns execution context color, that means the assignment of this peripheral is fixed by hardware to the execution context.
  • When a peripheral box owns a mix of two execution colors that means this peripheral is shared by hardware between the two execution contexts.
  • When a peripheral box has dark gray color, that means this peripheral is protected by RIF and could be assigned to any execution context.
  • When a peripheral box has light gray color, that means this peripheral is a RIF-aware peripheral. This peripheral owns several features which can be assigned independently to any execution context.

Internal peripheral assignment tables list assignment capabilities for each peripheral.

Both the diagram below and the following summary tables (in Internal peripherals runtime assignment and Internal peripherals boot time assignment chapters below) are clickable in order to jump to each peripheral overview articles and get more detailed information (like software frameworks used to control them). They list STMicroelectronics recommendations. The STM32MP21 reference manual [2] may expose more possibilities than what is shown here.


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STM32MP21 Internal peripherals

2. Internal peripherals boot time assignment[edit | edit source]

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Check boxes illustrate the possible peripheral allocations supported by the OpenSTLinux BSP:

  • ⬚ means that the peripheral can be assigned to the given boot time context, but this configuration is not supported in OpenSTLinux BSP.
  • ☐ means that the peripheral can be assigned to the given boot time context.
  • ☑ means that the peripheral is assigned by default to the given boot time context and that the peripheral is mandatory for the OpenSTLinux BSP.
  • ✓ is used for system peripherals that cannot be unchecked because they are hardware connected in the device.

The present chapter describes STMicroelectronics recommendations or choice of implementation. Additional possibilities might be described in STM32 MPU reference manuals.

ADF internal peripheral
Domain Peripheral Boot time allocation Comment
Instance Cortex-A35
secure
(ROM code)
Cortex-A35
secure
(TF-A BL2)
Cortex-A35
nonsecure
(U-Boot)
Cortex-M33
secure
(MCUboot)
Core/Processors Arm® Cortex®-A35 Arm® Cortex®-A35 ✓ ✓ ✓ ⬚ Can be started by MCUboot.
Running the OpenSTLinux distribution.
Core/Processors Arm® Cortex®-M33 Arm® Cortex®-M33 ✓
Analog VREFBUF VREFBUF ⬚ TF-M offers SCMI regulator service to manage VREFBUF
Analog ADC ADC1 ⬚ ☐ ⬚
ADC2 ⬚ ☐ ⬚
Analog MDF MDF1 ⬚ ⬚ ⬚
Low speed interface or audio SPI SPI1 ⬚ ☐ ⬚
SPI2 ⬚ ☐ ⬚
SPI3 ⬚ ☐ ⬚
SPI4 ⬚ ☐ ⬚
SPI5 ⬚ ☐ ⬚
SPI6 ⬚ ☐ ⬚
Audio SPDIFRX SPDIFRX ⬚
Audio SAI SAI1 ⬚
SAI2 ⬚
SAI3 ⬚
SAI4 ⬚
Coprocessor IPCC IPCC1 Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the boot time allocation per feature
Core STGEN STGEN ✓ ☑ Read-only
(STGENR)
Core RTC RTC Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the boot time allocation per feature
Core/DMA HPDMA HPDMAx (x = 1 to 3) Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the boot time allocation per feature
Core/Interrupts EXTI EXTI1 Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the boot time allocation per feature
EXTI2 Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the boot time allocation per feature
Core/IOs GPIO GPIOA-I Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the boot time allocation per feature
GPIOZ Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the boot time allocation per feature
Core/RAM SYSRAM SYSRAM ✓ ✓
Core/RAM DDRCTRL & DDRPHYC DDR ✓ Assignment is controlled by the RCC RIF 104 resource that also include the PLL2 control.
Core/RAM SRAM SRAM1 ✓ ☐ ☐ ☑ Used during boot by MCUboot for his memory stack.
Core/Timers TIM TIMx (x = 1 to 8, 10 to 17) ⬚ ☐ ⬚
Core/Timers LPTIM LPTIMx (x = 1 to 5) ⬚ ⬚ ⬚
Core/Watchdog IWDG IWDG1 ☐ ☐ ☐
IWDG2 ☐ ⬚ ☐
IWDG3 ☐
IWDG4 ☐
Core/Watchdog WWDG WWDG1 ⬚
High speed interface OTG OTG ⬚ ☐ ⬚ The OTG can be used by U-Boot with command line tools
High speed interface USBH USBH ⬚ ☐ ⬚
High speed interface USB2PHY USB2PHY1 ⬚ ☐ ⬚ USB2PHY1 can be used in U-boot by USBH with command line tools.
USB2PHY2 ⬚ ☐ ⬚ USB2PHY2 can be used in U-boot by OTG with command line tools.
Low speed interface USART UART4 ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐
UART5 ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐
UART7 ☐ ☐ ☐
USART1 ☐ ☐ ☐
USART2 ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐
USART3 ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐
USART6 ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐
Low speed interface LPUART LPUART1 ⬚ ⬚ ⬚
Low speed interface I2C I2C1 ☐ ☐ ☐
I2C2 ☐ ☐ ☐
I2C3 ☐ ☐ ☐
Low speed interface I3C I3C1 ⬚ ⬚ ⬚
I3C2 ⬚ ⬚ ⬚
I3C3 ⬚ ⬚ ⬚
Mass storage OCTOSPI OCTOSPI1 ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐
Mass storage FMC FMC Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the boot time allocation per feature
Mass storage SDMMC SDMMC1 ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐
SDMMC2 ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐
SDMMC3 ☐
Networking FDCAN FDCAN1 ⬚
FDCAN2 ⬚
Networking ETH ETH1 ☐
ETH2 ☐
Power & Thermal RCC RCC Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the boot time allocation per feature
For internal peripherals protected by a RISUP, the protection for reset and clock gating control is inherited from RIFSC configuration
RCC peripheral is used by all boot components. More info here
Power & Thermal PWR PWR Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF:
see the boot time allocation per feature
Power & Thermal DTS DTS ⬚ ⬚ ⬚
Security BSEC BSEC ✓ ✓
Security RNG RNG1 ✓ ☐ ⬚ ☐
RNG2 ✓ ☐ ⬚ ☐ RNG2 must be started to generate the DDR encryption key
Security HASH HASH1 ✓ ☐ ☐ ⬚
Security CRYP CRYP1 ☑ ⬚ ⬚ ⬚ ROM code allocation is managed with the bit 8 in OTP 16
CRYP2 ⬚ ⬚
Security SAES SAES ☐ ☐ ⬚ ⬚ ROM code allocation is managed with the bit 8 in OTP 16
Security TAMP TAMP Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the boot time allocation per feature
Security OTFDEC OTFDEC1 ⬚ ⬚ ⬚
Security PKA PKA ✓ ☐ ⬚ ⬚
Security RIFSC RIFSC ✓ ☑ ☑ ☑
Security RISAB RISAB1 ✓ ✓ ⬚
RISAB2 ✓ ✓ ⬚
RISAB3 ✓ ⬚ ⬚ Used by ROM code only in serial boot for USB buffer management
RISAB5 ✓ ⬚ ⬚ Used by ROM code only during cold boot
Security RISAF RISAF1 ☐ ⬚ ☐
RISAF2 ☐ ⬚ ☐
RISAF4 ☐ ⬚ ☑ FSBL MCUboot configures Cortex-M secure and encrypted memory regions
Security IAC IAC ⬚ Fixed to TDCID
Trace & debug SERC SERC ⬚ ⬚ ⬚
Visual LTDC LTDC_CMN ☐
LTDC_L1L2 ☐
LTDC_L3 ⬚

3. Internal peripherals runtime assignment[edit | edit source]

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STM32MP21 internal peripherals

Check boxes illustrate the possible peripheral allocations supported by the OpenSTLinux BSP:

  • ⬚ means that the peripheral can be assigned to the given runtime context, but this configuration is not supported in OpenSTLinux BSP.
  • ☐ means that the peripheral can be assigned to the given runtime context.
  • ☑ means that the peripheral is assigned by default to the given runtime context and that the peripheral is mandatory for the OpenSTLinux BSP.
  • ✓ is used for system peripherals that cannot be unchecked because they are hardware connected in the device.

Refer to How to assign an internal peripheral to an execution context for more information on how to assign peripherals manually or via STM32CubeMX.
The present chapter describes STMicroelectronics recommendations or choice of implementation. Additional possibilities might be described in STM32MP21 reference manuals.

ADF internal peripheral
Domain Peripheral Runtime allocation Comment
Instance Cortex-A35
secure
(OP-TEE /
TF-A BL31)
Cortex-A35
nonsecure
(Linux)
Cortex-M33
secure
(TF-M)
Cortex-M33
nonsecure
(STM32Cube)
Core/Processors Arm® Cortex®-A35 Arm® Cortex®-A35 ✓OP-TEE
✓TF-A BL31
✓ ☐ ⬚ In M33-TD flavor , Cortex-A35 can be started by TF-M or by STM32CubeMP2.
Running the OpenSTLinux distribution.
Core/Processors Arm® Cortex®-M33 Arm® Cortex®-M33 ✓ ☐
Analog VREFBUF VREFBUF ⬚ ⬚ ☑ ⬚ TF-M offers SCMI regulator service to manage VREFBUF
Analog ADC ADC1 ☐OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
ADC2 ☐OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
Analog MDF MDF1 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
Low speed interface or audio SPI SPI1 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SPI2 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SPI3 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SPI4 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SPI5 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SPI6 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
Low speed interface or audio SPI SPI1 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SPI2 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SPI3 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SPI4 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SPI5 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SPI8 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
Low speed interface or audio SPI SPI1 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SPI2 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SPI3 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SPI4 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SPI5 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SPI6 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SPI7 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SPI8 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐ ☐
Audio SPDIFRX SPDIFRX ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
Audio SAI SAI1 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SAI2 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SAI3 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
SAI4 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
Coprocessor IPCC IPCC1 Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the runtime allocation per feature
Core STGEN STGEN ☑OP-TEE
☑TF-A BL31
Read-only
(STGENR)
Core RTC RTC Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the runtime allocation per feature RTC is mandatory to resynchronize STGEN after exiting low-power modes.
Core/DMA HPDMA

HPDMAx (x = 1 to 3) Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the runtime allocation per feature
Core/Interrupts EXTI EXTI1 Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the runtime allocation per feature
EXTI2 Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the runtime allocation per feature
Core/IOs GPIO GPIOA-I Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the runtime allocation per feature
GPIOZ Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the runtime allocation per feature
Core/RAM SYSRAM SYSRAM ☑BL31

☐OP-TEE

☑ ☐ ☐

Cortex-A35 secure section required for low power entry and exit

Core/RAM DDRCTRL & DDRPHYC DDR ✓ ⬚ Assignment is controlled by the RCC RIF 104 resource that also include the PLL2 control.
Core/RAM BKPSRAM BKPSRAM ☑BL31

⬚OP-TEE

⬚ ☑ ☐

Assignment thanks to RISAF1

Core/RAM RETRAM RETRAM ☑BL31

⬚OP-TEE

⬚ ⬚A35-TD flavor

☑M33-TD flavor

⬚

Assignment thanks to RISAB5

Core/RAM SRAM SRAM1 ☑OP-TEE

☐BL31

☑ ☑ ☐ BSEC mirror, SCMI CID1 exchange area, PSA buffer.
Core/Timers TIM TIMx (x = 1 to 8, 10 to 17) ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
Core/Timers LPTIM LPTIM1 ☐OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐ LPTIM1 can be used for HSE monitoring.
LPTIM2 ☐OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
LPTIM3 ☐OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐ LPTIMy (y = 3, 4, 5) can be used for scheduling in low power modes by Linux
LPTIM4 ☐OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐ LPTIMy (y = 3, 4, 5) can be used for scheduling in low power modes by Linux
LPTIM5 ☐OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐ LPTIMy (y = 3, 4, 5) can be used for scheduling in low power modes by Linux
Core/Watchdog IWDG IWDG1 ☐OP-TEE
☐TF-A BL31
☐
IWDG2 ☐OP-TEE
☐TF-A BL31
☐
IWDG3 ☐ ☐
IWDG4 ☐ ☐
Core/Watchdog WWDG WWDG1 ⬚ ☐
High speed interface OTG OTG ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
High speed interface USBH USBH ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ⬚
High speed interface USB2PHY USB2PHY1 ⬚OP-TEE
⬚TF-A BL31
☐ ⬚ ☐ Allocation inherited from USBH
USB2PHY2 ⬚OP-TEE
☐TF-A BL31
☐ ⬚ ☐ Allocation inherited from OTG
Low speed interface USART UART4 ☐OP-TEE
☐TF-A BL31
☐ ☐ ☐
UART5 ☐OP-TEE
☐TF-A BL31
☐ ☐ ☐
UART7 ☐OP-TEE
☐TF-A BL31
☐ ☐ ☐
USART1 ☐OP-TEE
☐TF-A BL31
☐ ☐ ☐
USART2 ☐OP-TEE
☐TF-A BL31
☐ ☐ ☐
USART3 ☐OP-TEE
☐TF-A BL31
☐ ☐ ☐
USART6 ☐OP-TEE
☐TF-A BL31
☐ ☐ ☐
Low speed interface LPUART LPUART1 ⬚OP-TEE
⬚TF-A BL31
☐ ⬚ ☐
Low speed interface I2C I2C1 ☐OP-TEE
⬚TF-A BL31
☐ ☐ ☐
I2C2 ☐OP-TEE
⬚TF-A BL31
☐ ☐ ☐
I2C3 ☐OP-TEE
⬚TF-A BL31
☐ ☐ ☐ Used for PMIC control on ST boards.
Low speed interface I3C I3C1 ⬚OP-TEE
⬚TF-A BL31
☐ ⬚ ☐
I3C2 ⬚OP-TEE
⬚TF-A BL31
☐ ⬚ ☐
I3C3 ⬚OP-TEE
⬚TF-A BL31
☐ ⬚ ☐
Mass storage OCTOSPI OCTOSPI1 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ☐ ☐
Mass storage FMC FMC Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the runtime allocation per feature
Mass storage SDMMC SDMMC1 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ☐ ☐
SDMMC2 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ☐ ☐
SDMMC3 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ☐ ☐
Networking FDCAN FDCAN1 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
FDCAN2 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
Power & Thermal RCC RCC Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the runtime allocation per feature.
For internal peripherals protected by a RISUP, the protection for reset and clock gating control is inherited from RIFSC configuration.
RCC peripheral is used by all software components. More info here.
The Cortex-M secure OS TF-M controls the system resources and provides SCMI services.
Power & Thermal PWR PWR Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF:
see the runtime allocation per feature
Power & Thermal DTS DTS ⬚TF-A BL31
⬚OP-TEE
☐ ⬚ ⬚
Security BSEC BSEC ✓
Security RNG RNG1 ☐OP-TEE ⬚ ☐ ⬚
RNG2 ☐OP-TEE ⬚ ☐ ⬚
Security HASH HASH1 ☐OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
HASH2 ☐OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
Security CRYP CRYP1 ☐OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
CRYP2 ☐OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
Security CRC CRC ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
Security SAES SAES ☐OP-TEE ⬚ ☑ ⬚
Security TAMP TAMP Shareable at internal peripheral level thanks to the RIF: see the runtime allocation per feature
Security OTFDEC OTFDEC1 ⬚OP-TEE ⬚ ⬚ ⬚
Security PKA PKA ☑OP-TEE ⬚ ⬚ ⬚
Security RIFSC RIFSC ☑OP-TEE ☑ ☑ ☐
Security RISAB RISAB1 ☑OP-TEE ⬚
RISAB2 ☑OP-TEE ⬚
RISAB3 ☐OP-TEE ⬚ ☑ ⬚
RISAB5 ☐OP-TEE ⬚ ☑ ⬚
Security RISAF RISAF1 ☐OP-TEE ⬚ ☑ ⬚ TF-M configures all regions
RISAF2 ☐OP-TEE ⬚ ☑ ⬚ TF-M configures all regions
RISAF4 ☐OP-TEE ⬚ ☑ ⬚ TF-M configures all regions all regions except its own
Security IAC IAC ✓ Fixed to TDCID
Trace & debug SERC SERC ☐OP-TEE ⬚ ☑ ⬚ Assignment (single choice)
Trace & Debug HDP HDP ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ⬚
Visual LTDC LTDC_CMN ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
LTDC_L1L2 ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
LTDC_L3 ☐OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
Visual DCMI DCMI ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
Visual CSI CSI ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐
Visual DCMIPP DCMIPP ⬚OP-TEE ☐ ⬚ ☐

4. References[edit | edit source]