Electronic – Storing settings/data on microcontrollers non-volatile memory (STM32F103)

Probably not, but then writing the simple code for this in a microcontroller is really easy. EEPROM chips don't work this way because there is more to a EEPROM than just storing and reading back a string of 500 bits. Some SPI EEPROMs come close to what you want once you get going, but there are still issues of pages, opcodes, and the like.

500 bits is only 62.5 bytes, so any micro with at least 64 bytes of EEPROM built in can easily do this. That is a small amount of EEPROM for a micro. This also allows the button debouncing to be done in firmware.

Also, 500 bits by hand? Seriously? The chance of getting those all right is pretty much zero.

are there embedded sized libraries for them or some detailed instructions to implement [lossless decompression]?

Yes, it is possible to put compressed photographs (or drawings or fonts) in flash and then decode them with a variety of libraries.

Two popular techniques for storing arbitrary binary data in flash are: are:

• Store the (possibly compressed) drawings (or photographs or fonts) in a SD card or some other external flash media, and use library functions in your application to pull those images from the card
• Use a bin2hex utility such as xxd(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)(i) to convert (possibly compressed) binary files into ".c" C language source code files as named arrays. (Typically using "const" or "PROGMEM" or whatever magic keyword your compiler uses to keep that data in flash, without using up any RAM). Then compile those source files into your application; and use normal array access [] to pull the bytes of the drawings or photographs from program memory.

There are a variety of tradeoffs in how to store stuff in flash, between

• drop drawings in PNG, photographs in JPEG, or both on the SD card in FAT format, and use a lot of code space on your microcontroller to implement FAT libraries, decompression from PNG or JPEG or both to RGB pixels, and reformat to push to your screen.
• Use software on your development computer to convert photographs or drawings or both into some other format that takes less code space (or less RAM) on your microcontroller -- in the extreme case, simply copy bytes from the SD card to the display.

There are a variety of lossy and lossless data compression libraries available; often the "decompression-only" section is relatively small and would probably fit on your microcontroller:

Libraries more-or-less specifically designed for photographs and drawings:

• libpng and zlib source code, and more PNG documentation
• LodePNG
• TJpegDec

"Small" libraries that apparently work well in embedded systems:

• miniLZO -- "one C source file and three header files. It compiles to less than 6 kB (on x86)"
• Snappy in ANSI C
• LibLZF consists of only two .c and two .h files in portable C.
• LZW compression in 500 lines of C
• more open-source data compression example code