TEXAS Instruments has launched its low cost C2000 Delfino F28377S microcontroller (MCU) LaunchPad development kit.
The C2000 Delfino kit makes high performance digital control design in digital power, solar, motor control and industrial drives applications affordable, claims TI.
Based on the F28377S MCU, the LaunchPad offers 200 MHz of 32-bit floating-point performance, newly integrated accelerators, as well as high-integrity analogue and control peripherals for US$29.99.
The LaunchPad is compatible with the Digital Power BoosterPack and Motor Drive BoosterPack, to help designers jump-start digital power and motor control development. It also offers a variety of software support to further ease development.
The new LaunchPad provides higher performance levels than existing C2000 LaunchPads with the combination of the C28x core and CLA real-time co-processor, providing 400 MIPS of floating-point performance.
The MCU is further accelerated by the trigonometric math unit (TMU), which enables the chip to quickly execute trigonometric-based algorithms used in transform and control functions, and a Viterbi Complex Unit (VCU II), which accelerates power line communications algorithms and complex math operations.
The MCU also integrates analogue and control peripherals, including a more flexible PWM architecture, two ADCs supported in 12-bit mode on the LaunchPad, six delta-sigma sinc filters, four windowed comparators and many other control and communications peripherals.