Texas Instruments: EK-TM4C123GXL Tiva™︎ C Series LaunchPad Evaluation Kit

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Overview

The Texas Instruments Tiva™ C Series TM4C123G LaunchPad (EK-TM4C123GXLEK-TM4C123GXL) concept is an extremely low-cost, expandable evaluation system for TI microcontrollers. This concept began with the tremendously successful MSP430™ LaunchPad which introduced a large number of engineers to the TI multiProductLinkMSP430 family of microcontrollers (MCUs). The Tiva Series of 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M4 MCU family expands that success by introducing the Tiva C Series TM4C123G LaunchPad featuring the Tiva C Series TM4C123GH6PMTM4C123GH6PM microcontroller.

A Tiva C Series LaunchPad consists of a target microcontroller, an in-circuit debug interface (ICDI) such as JTAG, a regulated power supply, a minimal microcontroller support circuit, a user interface, and a set of expansion headers. These expansion headers are referred to as the BoosterPack Interface. A BoosterPack is an expansion card designed for this interface. The BoosterPack interface provides a mechanism for developers to easily extend the Tiva C Series LaunchPad with application- and userspecific functions.

The EK-TM4C123GXLEK-TM4C123GXL LaunchPad provides a BoosterPack interface that is compatible with the MSP430 LaunchPad. In addition, the TM4C123 LaunchPad provides access to additional Tiva C Series functionality through an extended BoosterPack interface called the BoosterPack XL Interface. BoosterPack interfaces with highly similar functionality for expansion will be available for the Tiva C Series LaunchPad, in addition to microcontroller-family-specific functionality available on a BoosterPack XL Interface for additional options.

The Tiva C Series LaunchPad design highlights the TM4C123GH6PMTM4C123GH6PMI microcontroller USB 2.0 device interface, hibernation module, and motion control pulse-width modulator (MC PWM) module. The Tiva C Series LaunchPad also features programmable user buttons and an RGB LED for custom applications. The stackable headers of the Tiva C Series TM4C123G LaunchPad BoosterPack XL interface demonstrate how easy it is to expand the functionality of the Tiva C Series LaunchPad when interfacing to other peripherals on many existing BoosterPack add-on boards as well as future products.

Key Applications: Low power, hand-held smart devices, Gaming equipment, Home and commercial site monitoring and control, Motion control, Medical instrumentation, Test and measurement equipment, Factory automation, Fire and security, Smart Energy/Smart Grid solutions, Intelligent lighting control, Transportation

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Development Tools

Software Development Tools:

Tool Type	Supplier	MPN	Supported Family	Description
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
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: BoosterPack Development Guide for EK-TM4C123GXL Tiva™ C Series LaunchPad Evaluation Kit
User Manual	Texas Instruments: User Manual for EK-TM4C123GXL Tiva™ C Series LaunchPad Evaluation Kit
Quick Start Guide	Texas Instruments: Quick Start Guide for EK-TM4C123GXL Tiva™ C Series LaunchPad Evaluation Kit
Product Brief	Texas Instruments: Product Brief for EK-TM4C123GXL Tiva™ C Series LaunchPad Evaluation Kit
Datasheet	Texas Instruments: Data Sheet for Tiva™™ C Series TM4C123GH6PM Microcontroller
Selection Guide	Texas Instruments: Selection Guide for Tiva C Series ARM Microcontrollers

Design Elements

Type	Description
Application Library	Texas Instruments: Application Library for Stellaris® ICDI Drivers
Simulation Model	Texas Instruments: BSDL Model for TM4C123GH6PM

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Kit Features

Tiva TM4C123GH6PMTM4C123GH6PM microcontroller
Motion control PWM
USB Micro-AB connector:
- Device mode default configuration
- Host/OTG modes supportable

RGB user LED
Two user switches (application/wake)
Available I/O brought out to headers on a 0.1-in (2.54-mm) grid
On-board ICDI
Switch-selectable power sources:
- ICDI
- USB device
Reset switch
Preloaded RGB quickstart application
Supported by TivaWare for C Series software including the USB library and the peripheral driver library
Tiva C Series TM4C123G LaunchPad BoosterPack XL Interface, which features stackable headers to expand the capabilities of the Tiva C Series LaunchPad development platform

Kit Contents

Tiva C Series LaunchPad Evaluation Board (EK-TM4C123GXLEK-TM4C123GXL)
On-board In-Circuit Debug Interface (ICDI)
USB micro-B plug to USB-A plug cable
README First document

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