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3.5 Read interface
3.5.1 Relation between CPU clock frequency and Flash memory read time
To correctly read data from Flash memory, the number of wait states (LATENCY) must be
correctly programmed in the Flash access control register (FLASH_ACR) according to the
frequency of the CPU clock (HCLK) and the supply voltage of the device.
The prefetch buffer must be disabled when the supply voltage is below 2.1 V. The
correspondence between wait states and CPU clock frequency is given in Table 10 and
Table 11.
Note: On STM32F405xx/07xx and STM32F415xx/17xx devices:
- when VOS = '0', the maximum value of f
HCLK
= 144 MHz.
- when VOS = '1', the maximum value of f
HCLK
= 168 MHz.
On STM32F42xxx and STM32F43xxx devices:
- when VOS[1:0] = '0x01', the maximum value of f
HCLK
is 120 MHz.
- when VOS[1:0] = '0x10', the maximum value of f
HCLK
is 144 MHz. It can be extended to
168 MHz by activating the over-drive mode.
- when VOS[1:0] = '0x11, the maximum value of f
HCLK
is 168 MHz. It can be extended to
180 MHz by activating the over-drive mode.
- The over-drive mode is not available when V
DD
ranges from 1.8 to 2.1 V.
Refer to Section 5.1.4: Voltage regulator for STM32F42xxx and STM32F43xxx for details on
how to activate the over-drive mode.
Table 10. Number of wait states according to CPU clock (HCLK) frequency
(STM32F405xx/07xx and STM32F415xx/17xx)
Wait states (WS)
(LATENCY)
HCLK (MHz)
Voltage range
2.7 V - 3.6 V
Voltage range
2.4 V - 2.7 V
Voltage range
2.1 V - 2.4 V
Voltage range
1.8 V - 2.1 V
Prefetch OFF
0 WS (1 CPU cycle) 0 < HCLK≤ 30 0 < HCLK ≤ 24 0 < HCLK ≤ 22 0 < HCLK ≤ 20
1 WS (2 CPU cycles) 30 < HCLK ≤ 60 24 < HCLK≤ 48 22 < HCLK ≤ 44 20 <HCLK ≤ 40
2 WS (3 CPU cycles) 60 < HCLK ≤ 90 48 < HCLK≤ 72 44 < HCLK≤ 66 40 < HCLK≤ 60
3 WS (4 CPU cycles) 90 < HCLK ≤ 120 72 < HCLK≤ 96 66 < HCLK ≤ 88 60 < HCLK≤ 80
4 WS (5 CPU cycles) 120 < HCLK ≤ 150 96 < HCLK≤ 120 88 < HCLK≤ 110 80 < HCLK≤ 100
5 WS (6 CPU cycles) 150 < HCLK ≤ 168 120 < HCLK ≤ 144 110 < HCLK≤ 132 100 < HCLK≤ 120
6 WS (7 CPU cycles)
144 < HCLK ≤ 168 132 < HCLK≤ 154 120 < HCLK≤ 140
7 WS (8 CPU cycles)
154 < HCLK ≤ 168 140 < HCLK≤ 160