
The new class enables health-related devices, such as exercise watches, blood pressure monitors, thermometers, weighing scales and glucose meters, to connect to a host and ease the communication between individuals and their fitness coach, or patients and their doctor.
There are now more than 180 variants of the STM32 family and ST has also announced an extension to the STM32L range to offer greater on-chip flash memory; up to 384kbyte.
The PHDC is the first wired communication transport layer approved and adopted by the Continua Healthcare Alliance. The ST stack is based on the IEEE-11073 standard.
