X-CUBE-AUDIO

Data brief

Audio effects libraries software expansion for STM32Cube

Sample application
User PC
Features
application software
Application level demostration • STM32Cube audio effect modules and libraries for the STM32F4 and STM32F7
Audio libraries
Series of microcontrollers
Audio effects • 16-bit wave format stereo input at 48 kHz expected by Xcube audio applications
libraries
• 32-bit resolution audio library computation and 16- or 32-bit I/O buffers
Audio Codecs USB FatFs
libraries Utilities supported
• Bass manager (BAM): management of the low frequencies of a stereo signal,
Vocoders libraries
including compressor and limiter
Middleware level • Generic biquad filter (BIQ): IIR second order filters and predefined standard
Board support package
(BSP)
Hardware abstraction layer
(HAL)
filters such as peak removal, loudness, notch, voice enhancer, low-pass, and
CMSIS
Drivers
high-pass frequency response for transducer equalization
USB user Audio sensors Codecs STM32
• Clock drift compensation (CDC): compensation of drift by smoothly adding or
MCU removing one sample
Hardware components
• Gain manager (GAM): management of input signal volume with negative gains
STM32 discovery boards
in range [-80 dB: 0 dB] with 0.5 dB granularity without compression
Development boards
• Graphical equalizer (GREQ): 5, 8 or 10 bands. Adjustable gain factors from
-12 dB to +12 dB in standard mode
• Headphone virtualizer (HPV): audio virtualization for headphones from a
1.0/2.0/5.1/7.1 input stream to a virtualized 2.0 output stream
• MP3 Decoder (MP3Dec): decoder for MPEG-1,2 or 2.5 formats (for layers 1, 2
and 3) supporting constant, free format or VBR variable bit rate for mono or
stereo audio input streams with PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) decoded output.
• MP3 encoder (MP3Enc): encoder for MPEG-1,2 or 2.5 formats (for layer 3 only)
Product status link supporting fixed or free format bit rate for mono or stereo audio input streams.
• Sampling rate converter (SRC236 and SRC441):
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– sampling frequency conversion from any rate with a ratio of 2, 3, 6, 3/2, 1/2,
1/3, 1/6, or 2/3
– sampling frequency conversion from 44.1 kHz to 48 kHz
• Omni surround multichannel virtualizer (OMNI2):
– audio virtualization for loudspeakers from a 1.0/2.0/5.1/7.1 input stream to a
virtualized 2.0 output stream (including stereo widening effect).
– Omni surround stereo widener (OMNI2_SW only) audio virtualization for
loudspeakers from a 1.0/2.0 input stream to a widened 2.0 output stream.
• Smart volume control (SVC): management of audio input signal volume
including a compression with gains in the range [-80 dB:+36 dB]
• Sound detector (SDR): audio signals detection used to trigger signal processing
such as speech recognition
• Sound meter (SMR): level measurement on a logarithmic scale

Description
The X-CUBE-AUDIO package contains a comprehensive set of audio processing
components for the STM32F4 and STM32F7 Series of microcontrollers. It is
composed of high-quality efficient software libraries and modules ready to be
embedded into a variety of audio appliances. All audio binaries are delivered with
internal 32-bit processing and support either 16- or 32-bits I/O buffers.

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Each audio effect application in X-CUBE-AUDIO expects a 16-bit stereo audio input
signal at a 48-kHz sampling rate, using wave format with I/O data buffers
dimensioned for 10 ms.

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General information
The X-CUBE-AUDIO embedded software package runs on STM32 32-bit microcontrollers based on the Arm®
Cortex®-M processor.
Note: Arm is a registered trademark of Arm Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the US and/or elsewhere.

Ordering Information
X-CUBE-AUDIO is available for free download from the www.st.com website.

License
X-CUBE-AUDIO is delivered under the Mix Liberty + OSS + 3rd party V1 license.
The software components provided in this package come with different license schemes as shown in
Table 1. Software component license agreements.
For more details, refer to the license agreement of each component.

Table 1. Software component license agreements

Software component Owner License

Board Support Package (BSP) ST Open source BSD

Cortex®-M CMSIS Arm® Open source BSD

HAL STM32 F4/F7 ST Open source BSD

Libraries for audio effects modules (as PDM, BAM, BIQ, CDC,GAM,GREQ,
ST Image V2
HPV, OMNI2, OMNI2_SW, SDR, SMR, SRC236, SRC441, SVC)
Libraries for Audio codecs: MP3 decoder ST Image V2
Libraries for Audio codecs: spiritDSP MP3 encoder Spirit DSP Image V2 (binary release)
Libraries for Audio codecs: spiritDSP MP3 decoder Spirit DSP Image V2 (binary release)
Libraries for Audio codecs: spiritDSP MP3 wrapper ST Ultimate Liberty (source release)
Project examples & Common files ST Ultimate Liberty (source release)

Revision history

Table 2. Document revision history

Date Revision Changes

03-Jun-2016 1 Initial release.

Updated Section Features, Section Description.
01-Feb-2018 2 Replaced X-CUBE-AUDIO-F4 and X-CUBE-AUDIO-F7 RPNs with X-CUBE-AUDIO.
Added Section License
03-Jul-2018 3 Updated Section Features and Table 1. Software component license agreements
19-Sep-2018 4 Updated Section Features, Table 1. Software component license agreements
05-Nov-2018 5 Updated Section Features and Table 1. Software component license agreements
Updated image on front page, Section Features, Section Description, Table 1. Software component
03-Apr-2019 6
license agreements.

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