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Visitor II
October 30, 2024
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External memories and FMC

  • October 30, 2024
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Hello,

in order to use external memories, is it mandatory to use the FMC?

Thank you

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    Best answer by mƎALLEm

    Hello @GGran.2 ,

    That depends on the memory you need to interface.

    There are other external memory interfaces such as QuadsPI, OCTOSPI, XSPI etc .. even I2C and SPI could be an interface for some memories...

    You need to provide more details about the device you need to manage with STM32.

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    mƎALLEmAnswer
    Technical Moderator
    October 30, 2024

    Hello @GGran.2 ,

    That depends on the memory you need to interface.

    There are other external memory interfaces such as QuadsPI, OCTOSPI, XSPI etc .. even I2C and SPI could be an interface for some memories...

    You need to provide more details about the device you need to manage with STM32.

    GGran.2Author
    Visitor II
    October 30, 2024

    Thank you for the answer. My question was born following an answer to another my question in this forum concerning the speculation. In that answer a user wrote that the speculation on FMC is not useful while the speculation on external memories can be useful. Then I thought that the external memories can be acceded with different controllers and protocols.

    Technical Moderator
    October 30, 2024

    FMC can be accessed the same way as internal memories taking into account some specificities: default MPU config, timings etc ..

    Hope I answerd your question.

    Visitor II
    October 30, 2024

    Hy GGran.2,

    That depends on the memory you need to interface.