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= Embassy STM32 HAL

The link:https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy/tree/main/embassy-stm32[Embassy STM32 HAL] is based on the `stm32-metapac` project.

== The infinite variant problem

STM32 microcontrollers come 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 has 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

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.

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.