F28335 eZdsp Starter Kit for TMS320F2833x (F2833x) DSCs (Digital Signal Controllers)

Texas Instruments introduced the F28335 eZdsp starter kit to help designer to build applications based on TI’s TMS320F2833x (F2833x) DSCs (digital signal controllers). The stand-alone starter kit provides all the hardware and software necessary for evaluation and software development, and cutting design cycle time and costs.

The F28335 eZdsp comes complete with an F28335 target board, TI's Code Composer Studio IDE v.3.3, power adapter and USB cable. The target board features the 150MHz/300 MFLOPS F28335 DSC with 512KB flash and 68KB RAM, 128Kx16 off-chip SRAM.

F28335 eZdsp Starter Kit

Features of TI’s F28335 eZdsp starter kit

Hardware:

• TMS320F28335 Floating-Point DSC (Digital Signal Controller
• 150 MHz operation
• 512 KB on-chip flash memory
• 68 KB on-chip RAM
• 12-bit ADC with 16 input channels
• 128k x 16 off-chip SRAM
• Clamshell socket for the F28335 DSC
• Embedded USB JTAG Controller
• RS-232 interface with on-board transceiver and 9-pin DSUB connector
• CAN interface with on-board transceiver and 9-pin DSUB connector
• Multiple expansion connectors provide access to all F28335 I/O signals
• IEEE 1149.1 JTAG emulation connector
• Operates from a single 5V supply with provided AC adapter

Software:

• Code Composer Studio Integrated Development Environment for C2000 including C compiler, assembler, linker, real-time debug support, data visualization, a profiler and a flexible project manager.
• eZdsp diagnostic software, including test examples for UART, CAN, I2C, and memory
• Texas Instruments’ Flash APIs to support the F28335
• Texas Instruments’ F28335 header files and example software

TI’s F28335 controller is the industry’s first floating-point DSC, supplying developers of industrial systems with the inherent floating-point advantages of performance and simplified software development over fixed-point devices. TI’s TMS320F283xx Controllers feature 32-bit floating-point C28x DSC core, Up to 150 MHz operation with 300 MFLOPS, Six-channel DMA and Powerful and flexible control-specific interfaces. F28335 is in sampling now, it is available in the 176-pin TQFP package.

The simplified software development and performance boost common to floating-point processors offer better power efficiency for greener industrial applications. For example, the F2833x devices enable variable speed alternating current (AC) drives, which use one-eighth the energy compared to constant speed counterparts. The floating-point devices also enable clean energy through solar power inverters that more efficiently convert energy from photovoltaic (PV) panels.

The new F2833x floating-point controllers can increase performance by an average of 50 percent over TI's previous leading digital signal controllers while operating at the same 150 MHz clock rate. Some algorithms, such as a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) used for complex calculations, will see a 200 percent improvement over an equivalent 32-bit fixed-point implementation.

Embedded software engineers typically prefer to design and prototype control systems in floating-point arithmetic, but final designs are usually implemented in fixed-point arithmetic. By removing the need to convert from floating point to fixed point, F2833x devices can save weeks or months of development time and eliminate the required modifications to scaling, saturation and adjustment of numerical resolution.

F28335 eZdsp starter kit package includes:

• Target board for the F28335 DSC
• USB Cable
• 5v power supply
• CD-ROM with Code Composer Studio v3.3 for C2000, eZdsp diagnostic software, and code examples
• Quick Start Guide
• Technical Reference Manual

F28335 eZdsp kit can be ordered today. The shipments will begin on October 15. Price:  US$495

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