C2000 Peripheral Explorer Kit and free Teaching ROM give developers a head start

HOUSTON, USA: Giving students and new real-time control developers an easy-to-use, cost-efficient foundation for jumpstarting designs, Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has announced its enhanced floating-point F28335 Delfino MCU Peripheral Explorer Kit and free C2000 MCU Teaching ROM.

The new C2000 Teaching ROM is a comprehensive guide to C2000 MCUs, also providing an introduction to real-time control design considerations. The Teaching ROM includes labs based on TI's F28335 Peripheral Explorer Kit for superior hands-on learning.

This new F28335 Peripheral Explorer Kit brings increased integration over previous explorer kits to reduce development cost and enhance learning exercises. Together, the Teaching ROM and Peripheral Explorer Kit will enable more engineers to leverage the performance of C2000 MCUs to develop more energy-efficient real-time control applications, such as motor control, digital power, renewable energy and lighting.

Free C2000 MCU Teaching ROM features and benefits
* Structured like an undergraduate-level course to provide intuitive, self-paced study.
* Nineteen modules cover MCU/DSP basics, MCU architecture, peripherals and tools as well as utilities and real-time control applications.
* Laboratory exercises paired with the F28335 Peripheral Explorer Kit.
* Complete procedures and solutions for laboratory exercises.
* All exercises are provided in two versions to run under Code Composer Studio IDE v3.3 and v4.

F28335 Peripheral Explorer Kit features and benefits (TMDSPREXF28335)
* Easily demo and evaluate key C2000 peripherals (ePWM, ADC, McBSP, eCAP, CAN, I2C, SPI, GPIO).
* Full board development enabled with included F28335 controlCARD.
* On-board USB JTAG emulation eliminates need for external emulator, reducing development cost.
* Temperature sensor and additional LEDs assist with learning and labs.
* Open source hardware, documentation and open source example software.

The F28335 Peripheral Explorer Kit (TMDSPREXF28335) is priced at $179 and is immediately available. The C2000 Teaching ROM is free.