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Hercules MCU Overview Slide 11

The TMS470M, 570M and RM4 have evaluation USB sticks available. Completely USB powered, these evaluation tools also have an on board JTAG emulator. Contained in these kits are either a UART to PC or SCI to PC serial communication channel. Direct access to select signal test pins is provided on these boards. Additionally, they have an array of LEDs, temperature and light sensors. Also there is an accelerometer on newer devices for the RM4 and 570. Finally, there is a CAN transceiver for customers that are interested in developing their own board for these evaluation kits to plug into. Texas Instruments also offers full featured development kits for the 470M, 570 and the RM48. These kits also feature an on-board JTAG emulator but have additional connectors available for higher end JTAG emulators. There are trace pads available for trace modules like the ETM, RTP and DMMs. The same array of LEDs are on board with temperature and light sensors for demo purposes. Additionally, these boards feature two CAN transceivers and a 10/100 Ethernet interface. The RM4X boards feature a USB-A host and a USB-B device interfaces. From a software point of view, these kits come with Code Composer Studio version 4.0 IDE which are not code size or time limited, but they are tied to the development board. There is also HALCoGen, which will be detailed on the next slide. Texas Instruments has integrated flash programming support into Code Composer Studio with a standalone nowFlash tool. Included with each kit there is a High End Timer graphical user interface (GUI) with demo software and project and source code examples.

PTM Published on: 2012-07-02