Low-cost evaluation platform based highest-performance Hercules MCU

This post is sponsored by Texas Instruments. The Hercules TMS570LC43x LaunchPad is now available from Texas Instruments (TI). The low-cost evaluation platform is based on the highest-performance Hercules MCU TMS570LC4357. The lockstep cached 300MHz ARM Cortex-R5F based TMS570 series automotive-grade MCU is designed to aid in the development of ISO26262 and IEC61508 functional safety applications. This LaunchPad features connectivity options such as IEEE 1588 precision time Ethernet PHY DP83630 and has the capability in addition to the standard BoosterPack headers, for further expansion to an FPGA or an external SRAM using high density connectors for MCU's parallel interfaces - EMIF, RTP and DMM. The TMS570LC43x MCUs include many diagnostic features such ECC protection for CPU caches & other memories and a rich set of 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. This LaunchPad is pre-programmed with a Hercules safety MCU demo enabling users to easily learn about the key safety, data acquisition and control features of the Hercules MCU platform.