Texas Instruments: EKT-LM3S6965 Ethernet Evaluation Kit for Stellaris LM3S6965 Microcontroller

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Kit Overview

The Stellaris® LM3S6965LM3S6965 Evaluation Board (EKT-LM3S6965EKT-LM3S6965) is a compact and versatile evaluation platform for Ethernet enabled Stellaris LM3S6965 ARM® Cortex™-M3 based microcontroller. The evaluation kit uses the LM3S6965 microcontroller’s fully integrated 10/100 Ethernet controller to demonstrate an embedded web server. You can use the board either as an evaluation platform or as a low-cost in-circuit debug interface(ICDI). Each board has an In-Circuit Debug Interface (ICDI) that provides hardware debugging functionality not only for the on-board Stellaris devices, but also for any Stellaris microcontroller-based target board. In debug interface mode, the on-board microcontroller is bypassed, allowing programming or debugging of an external target.

The kit is also compatible with high-performance external JTAG debuggers. This evaluation kit enables quick evaluation, prototype development, and creation of applicationspecific designs for Ethernet networks. The kit also includes extensive source-code examples, allowing you to start building C code applications quickly.

The heart of the EVB is a Stellaris LM3S6965LM3S6965 ARM® Cortex™-M3 based microcontroller operating at up to 50 MHz, with 256 kB flash and 64 kB SRAM. The LM3S6965 also features real-time industrial connectivity, with a 10/100 Ethernet MAC/PHY, an SSI / SPI controller, 2 I2C interfaces, and 3 UARTs. The LM3S6965 microcontroller also features advanced motion control features, including 6 motion-control PWM outputs with dead-band, two quadrature encoder inputs for precise position monitoring, and 1 fault protection inputs for low-latency shutdown. The microcontroller also features intelligent analog capability, including 2 analog comparators and 4 channels of highly accurate 10-bit analog-to-digital conversion - with the ability to sample at speeds of 1M samples per second. Finally, the LM3S6965 microcontroller provides a 24-bit systick timer, 4 32-bit or 8 16-bit general-purpose timers, a watchdog timer, a battery-backed hibernation module with RTC and 256 bytes of non-volatile state-saving memory, a low drop-out voltage regulator so that only one supply voltage is required, brown-out reset, power-on reset controller, and up to 42 GPIOs.

Key Applications: Remote monitoring, Electronic point-of-sale (POS) machines, Test and measurement equipment, Network appliances and switches, Factory automation, HVAC and building control, Gaming equipment, Motion control, Medical instrumentation, Fire and security, Power and energy, Transportation

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Software Development Tools:

Tool Type	Supplier	MPN	Supported Family	Description
IDE	Embest	CoIDE	ARM Cortex™-M	CooCox offer freely available powerful software development tool for ARM Cortex-M3 & Cortex-M0 based microcontrollers. Coocox Tools organizes and provides the knowledge required by developers. Learn More
RTOS	Embest	CoOS	ARM Cortex™-M	CoOS is a free and open RTOS from CooCox, designed specifically for Cortex-M processor, supports preemptive priority and round-robin, Semaphore, Mutex, Flag, Mailbox and Queue for communication & synchronization, highly scalable, minimum system kernel is only 974Bytes, supports interrupt while task switching, supports stack overflow detection, supports the platforms of ICCARM, ARMCC, GCC. Learn More
IDE	Texas Instruments	Code Composer Studio (CCStudio)	TI ARM MCUs	CCStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for TI embedded processor families. CCStudio comprises a suite of tools used to develop and debug embedded applications. It includes compilers for each of TI's device families, source code editor, project build environment, debugger, profiler, simulators, real-time operating system and many other features. Learn More
IDE	ARM	Keil MDK-ARM	ARM Cortex™-M / Cortex-R4 / ARM7™ / ARM9™	The MDK-ARM is a complete software development environment for Cortex™-M, Cortex-R4, ARM7™ and ARM9™ processor-based devices. MDK-ARM is specifically designed for microcontroller applications, it is easy to learn and use, yet powerful enough for the most demanding embedded applications. Learn More
RTOS	Micrium	µC/OS-III	TI ARM MCUs	μC/OS-III is Micrium’s newest RTOS, designed for developers who need to save time on their current and next embedded sytem projects. Using a commercial real-time kernel such as μC/OS-III provides a solid foundation and framework to the design engineer dealing with the growing complexity of embedded designs. Learn More
RTOS	Segger	embOS	TI ARM MCUs	SEGGER embOS (Real Time Operating System) follows strict, yet efficient coding and documentation standards. embOS is a priority-controlled real time operating system, designed to be used as foundation for the development of embedded real-time applications. Learn More

Hardware Development Tools:

Tool Type	Supplier	MPN	Supported Family	Description
Debugger	Embest	ColinkExColinkEx	ARM Cortex™-M	ARM Cortex-M MCU JTAG Hardware Debugging Probe which supports in CooCox software and Keil Realview MDK
Emulator / Debugger / Programmer	ARM	ULINK2ULINK2	ARM Cortex™-M / ARM7™ / ARM9™	ULINK2 Debug Adapter
Emulator / Debugger / Programmer	ARM	ULINKProULINKPro	ARM Cortex™-M / ARM7™ / ARM9™	ULINKpro Debug and Trace Unit
Emulator	Segger	J-LinkJ-Link	ARM Cortex™-M / Cortex-R4 / Cortex-A / ARM7™ / ARM9™	JTAG/SWD Emulator with USB interface
Programmer	Segger	Flasher ARMFlasher ARM	ARM Cortex™-M / Cortex-R4 / Cortex-A / ARM7™ / ARM9™	Flash Programmer for ARM and Cortex cores

Technical Documents

Learning Center

Type	Description
User Guide	Texas Instruments: User Guide for Stellaris LM3S6965 Evaluation Board
User Guide	Texas Instruments: Stellaris LM3S6965 Evaluation Kit Readme First
User Guide	Texas Instruments: User Manual Addendum for Stellaris LM3S2965 and LM3S6965 Evaluation Board
User Guide	Texas Instruments: Quick Start Guide for Stellaris Development and Evaluation Kits for Red Suite
Datasheet	Texas Instruments: Datasheet for Stellaris LM3S6965 Microcontroller
Product Brief	Texas Instruments: Product Brief for Stellaris LM3S6965 Evaluation Kit

Design Elements

Type	Description
CAD Model	Texas Instruments: CAD Model for LM3S6965 (BXL File Format)
Simulation Model	Texas Instruments: IBIS Model for LM3S6965 (100LQFP)
Simulation Model	Texas Instruments: IBIS Model for LM3S6965 (108BGA)
Simulation Model	Texas Instruments: BSDL Model for LM3S6965 (100LQFP)
Simulation Model	Texas Instruments: BSDL Model for LM3S6965 (108BGA)

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Kit Features

The Stellaris LM3S6965LM3S6965 Evaluation Board includes the following features:

Stellaris LM3S6965LM3S6965 microcontroller with fully-integrated 10/100 embedded Ethernet controller
Simple setup; USB cable provides serial communication, debugging, and power
OLED graphics display with 128 x 96 pixel resolution
User LED, navigation switches, and select pushbuttons
Magnetic speaker
LM3S6965LM3S6965 I/O available on labeled break-out pads
Standard ARM® 20-pin JTAG debug connector with input and output modes
USB interface for debugging and power supply
MicroSD card slot

Features of the LM3S6965LM3S6965 Microcontroller:

32-bit RISC performance using ARM® Cortex™-M3 v7M architecture
- 50-MHz operation
- Hardware-division and single-cycle-multiplication
- Integrated Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller (NVIC)
- 42 interrupt channels with eight priority levels
256 KB single-cycle Flash
64 KB single-cycle SRAM
Four general-purpose 32-bit timers
Integrated Ethernet MAC and PHY
Three fully programmable 16C550-type UARTs
Four 10-bit channels (inputs) when used as single-ended inputs
Two independent integrated analog comparators
Two I2C modules
Three PWM generator blocks
- One 16-bit counter
- Two comparators
- Produces two independent PWM signals
- One dead-band generator
Two QEI modules with position integrator for tracking encoder position
0 to 42 GPIOs, depending on user configuration
On-chip low drop-out (LDO) voltage regulator

Kit Contents

The Texas Instruments EKT-LM3S6965EKT-LM3S6965 Evaluation Board supplied with below contents:

LM3S6965LM3S6965 Evaluation Board (EVB)
USB cable
20-pin JTAG/SWD target cable
CD containing:
- A supported version of one of the following (including a toolchain-specific Quickstart guide):
  - Keil™ RealView® Microcontroller Development Kit (MDK-ARMMDK-ARM)
  - IAR Embedded Workbench
  - Code Sourcery GCC development tools
  - Code Red Technologies development tools
  - Texas Instruments’ Code Composer Studio™ IDE
- Complete documentation
- Quickstart application source code
- Stellaris® Firmware Development Package with example source code

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