Development kit makes cuts cost of high-performance digital control

Texas Instruments (TI) has unveiled its low-cost C2000 Delfino F28377S microcontroller (MCU) LaunchPad development kit – the first LaunchPad for the Delfino line of MCU. Based on TI's C2000 Delfino F28377S MCU, the LaunchPad offers 200MHz of 32-bit floating-point performance, newly integrated accelerators, as well as high-integrity analog and control peripherals. The LaunchPad is compatible with the Digital Power BoosterPack and Motor Drive BoosterPack and offers a variety of software support to further ease development. The Delfino LaunchPad dramatically reduces the barriers of entry for development of high-performance control systems in digital power, solar, motor control and industrial drives applications. The system's compatible Digital Power BoosterPack (BOOSTXL-BUCKCONV) and the Motor Drive BoosterPack (BOOSTXL-DRV8301) are also available. Alternatively, the LaunchPad is available bundled with the Digital Power BoosterPack (LAUNCH-XS-BUCKCONV) or the LaunchPad bundled with the Motor Drive BoosterPack (LAUNCH-XS-DRV8301). To further ease development, users can access the free controlSUITE, Energia, TI-RTOS and Code Composer Studio IDE. TI's C2000 Delfino F28377S MCU is now sampling. TI will also provide designers with more variants in this generation with different memory and peripheral mixes in the TMS32028376S, TMS320F28375S and TMS320F28374S configurations, says the company.