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= Embassy STM32 HAL
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The link:https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy/tree/master/embassy-stm32[Embassy STM32 HAL] is based on the `stm32-metapac` project.
== The infinite variant problem
STM32 microcontrollers comes in many families and flavors, and supporting all of them is a big undertaking. Embassy has taken advantage of the fact
that the STM32 peripheral versions are shared across chip families. Instead of re-implementing the SPI
peripheral for every STM32 chip family, embassy have a single SPI implementation that depends on
code-generated register types that are identical for STM32 families with the same version of a given peripheral.
=== The metapac
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The `stm32-metapac` module uses pre-generated chip and register definitions for STM32 chip families to generate register types. This is done at compile time based on Cargo feature flags.
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The chip and register definitions are located in a separate module, `stm32-data`, which is modified whenever a bug is found in the definitions, or when adding support for new chip families.
=== The HAL
The `embassy-stm32` module contains the HAL implementation for all STM32 families. The implementation uses automatically derived feature flags to support the correct version of a given peripheral for a given chip family.
== Timer driver
The STM32 timer driver operates at 32768 Hz by default.