The Hercules TMS570LC43x LaunchPad is now available from Texas Instruments. The low-cost evaluation platform is based on the highest performance Hercules MCU TMS570LC4357. The 300MHz ARM Cortex-R5F-based TMS570 series automotive MCUs based on lockstep cache are designed to help develop ISO26262 and IEC61508 functional safety applications.
This LaunchPad has connectivity options such as the IEEE 1588 Precision Time Ethernet PHY DP83630 and features beyond the standard BoosterPack header connector, which can be further expanded with high-density connectors for MCU parallel interfaces (EMIF, RTP, and DMM) To FPGA or external SRAM. .
The TMS570LC43x MCU includes many diagnostic functions, such as ECC protection for CPU cache and ECC. Other memories and rich peripherals, such as two 12-bit ADCs, programmable high-end timers, motor control peripherals (eQEP, eCAP, ePWM), Ethernet, FlexRay, MibSPI, EMIF, and many serial communication interfaces.
The LaunchPad is pre-programmed with Hercules secure MCU demos, allowing users to easily understand the key security, data acquisition and control functions of the Hercules MCU platform.
