[Dprglist] STM32MP157 development board on a robot?

[Murray Altheim]

Hi,

Does anyone have any experience with any of the STM32MP157 series
development boards? I'm looking at Mouser's listing of the "D" model,
which runs at 800MHz, which sells for US$74 (NZ$109), which seems like
a reasonable price. I have no idea how difficult it would be to use one
of these as a MicroPython-based MPU like the Pyboard (which I now have
a little bit of experience with), but the CPU has massive IO options,
e.g., 6 I2C buses, 4 UARTs, 4 USARTs, 6 SPIs, 2 CAN buses, 2 ADCs,
2 DCAs, 29 hardware timers, RTC, 10/100M or gigabit Ethernet, etc.

   https://www.st.com/en/microcontrollers-microprocessors/stm32mp157d.html
   https://nz.mouser.com/datasheet/2/389/stm32mp157f-1919809.pdf

So I'd be keen to know the gotchas on what it would take to run one of
these on a robot, would I be limited to programming them using some
bespoke ST IDE (which only runs on Windows?) or is it possible to
install a bootloader to use one like a Pyboard (where MicroPython "is
the OS")?

This is mostly curiosity as I'm guessing there is *some* reason people
aren't using these more widely on their robots than I've seen...

Thanks for any info,

Murray

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