GigaDevice – GD32 Cortex Mx introduction

GD32 is a ARM Cortex Mx family produced by GigaDevice.
The GD32 family represents an excellent alternative to the STM32 family and in general also for other manufacturers of Cortex Mx.

For more info concerning Cortex Mx architecture see here and here.

Up to now the Cortex Mx families available are shown below but more will arrive as soon.

The GD32 portfolio (January 2022) is shown below

Cortex	Name	Fmax (Mhz)	Flash (Max K)	Ram (Max K)
M23	GD32E2	72	64	8
M23	GD32L233	64 ULP	256	32
M33	GD32E5	180	512	128
M33	GD32W5	180	2048	448
M3	GD32F1	108	3072	96
M3	GD32F2	120	3072	256
M4	GD32E1	120	128	32
M4	GD32F3	120	3072	96
M4	GD32F4	200	3072	512

Last but not least there is the GD32FFPR family of dedicated MCUs that provide a secure, high-speed and cost-effective hardware development platform for fingerprint identification systems.
For more info contact Special-Ind
MIAXIS release the fingerprint recognition algorithm ready to use with the GD32FFPR, for more info see here.

GD32 product finder is here.

How to read the code of the GD32

Example: GD32F450ZK

.	Package
C	LQFP48
F	TSSOP20
G	QFN28
I	BGA176
R	LQFP64
V	LQFP100
T	QFN36
Z	LQFP144
K	QFN32

Example: GD32F450ZK

.	Flash K	Ram K
4	16	4	.	.
6	32	4	.	.
8	64	8	up to   20	– see d.s.
B	128	32	.	.
C	256	48	.	.
E	512	64	up to 192	– see d.s.
G	1024	96	up to 256	– see d.s.
I	2048	96	up to 512	– see d.s.
K	3072	192	up to 256	– see d.s.

For GD32 are available Evaluation Boards & Starter Kits
For more info see here.

Major IDEs/Compilers, Debugger tools and Programmers are supported.
For more info see here.

STM32 transplant to GD32, using KEIL, see here.

GD32 is supported also in ARDUINO IDE, for more info see here (see chapter 5.4 Installing GD32VF BSP for Arduino IDE ).

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GigaDevice propose also the RISC-V Microcontrollers.
For more info concerning the RISC-V architecture see here

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Contacts

For more info concerning the GigaDevice company profile see here.

For buy GD32 contact Special-Ind