Texas Instruments: EKK-LM3S8962 Ethernet+CAN Evaluation Kit with Keil Tools

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Kit Overview

The Stellaris LM3S8962 Evaluation KitStellaris LM3S8962 Evaluation Kit provides a compact and versatile evaluation platform for Ethernet + CAN enabled Stellaris ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontrollers. 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.

The Stellaris LM3S8962 Evaluation Board is a compact and versatile evaluation platform for the Stellaris LM3S8962Stellaris LM3S8962 ARM Architecture OverviewARM Cortex-M3-based microcontroller. The evaluation kit design highlights the LM3S8962 microcontroller's integrated CAN and 10/100 Ethernet controllers.

As well as implementing an embedded web server, the kit functions as a complete controller area network (CAN) by providing two boards each with a Stellaris microcontroller. The main evaluation board (EVB) is the CAN host. A small CAN device board, linked with a ribbon cable, uses a Stellaris LM3S2110-IQC25LM3S2110-IQC25 microcontroller. The function of each board is fully configurable in software.

You can use the EVB either as an evaluation platform or as a low-cost in-circuit debug interface (ICDI). In debug interface mode, the on-board microcontroller is bypassed, allowing connection of the debug signals to an external Stellaris microcontroller target. The kit is also compatible with high-performance external JTAG debuggers.

This evaluation kit enables quick evaluation, prototype development, and creation of application-specific designs for Ethernet and CAN networks. The kit also includes extensive source-code examples, allowing you to start building C code applications quickly.

The heart of the evaluation board is a Stellaris LM3S8962 ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontroller. The LM3S8962 offers 256-KB Flash memory, 50-MHz operation, an Ethernet controller, a CAN module, and a wide range of peripherals. The LM3S8962 microcontroller is factory-programmed with a quickstart demo program. The quickstart program resides in the LM3S8962 on-chip Flash memory and runs each time power is applied, unless the quickstart has been replaced with a user program.

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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Development Tools

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
Quick Start Guide	Stellaris Development and Evaluation Kits Quickstart for Keil Tools (Rev. C)
User Guide	Stellaris LM3S8962 Evaluation Kit Readme First (Rev. B)
User Guide	Stellaris LM3S8962 Evaluation Board User's Manual (Rev. B)
Datasheet	Stellaris LM3S8962 Microcontroller Data Sheet (Rev. F)
Whitepaper	Get to Work in 10 Minutes with Stellaris microcontrollers

Design Elements

Type	Description
RTOS	CMX-RTX and CMX-MicroNet demo for Cortex-M3 and Keil tool
RTOS	ThreadX RTOS demo for LM3S6965
RTOS	embOS v3.40f demo for Keil tool

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Kit Features

The evaluation kit includes the following features:

Stellaris LM3S8962 microcontroller with fully-integrated 10/100 embedded Ethernet controller and CAN MAC
Simple setup: USB cable provides serial communication, debugging, and power
OLED graphics display
User LED, navigation switches, and select pushbuttons
Magnetic speaker
MicroSD card slot
USB interface for debugging and power supply
Standard ARM 20-pin JTAG debug connector with input and output modes
LM3S8962 I/O available on labeled break-out pads

Features of the LM3S8962 Microcontroller:

32-bit RISC performance using ARM Cortex-M3 v7M architecture
- 50-MHz operation
- Hardware-division and single-cycle-multiplication
- Memory protection unit (MPU), provides a privileged mode for protected operating system
functionality
- 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
Controller area network (CAN) module
Three fully programmable 16C550-type UARTs
Four 10-bit ADC channels (inputs) when used as single-ended inputs
One integrated analog comparator
One I²C module
Two 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
Two synchronous serial interfaces (SSIs)
0 to 42 GPIOs, depending on user configuration
On-chip low drop-out (LDO) voltage regulator

Kit Contents

The evaluation kit contains everything needed to develop and run applications for Stellaris microcontrollers including:

LM3S8962 evaluation board (EVB)
USB cable
20-pin JTAG/SWD target cable
10-pin CAN cable
Retracting Ethernet cable
CD containing:
- Complete documentation
- Evaluation version of the software tools
- Quickstart guide and source code
- StellarisWare Peripheral Driver Library and example source code
- An evaluation version of one of the following:
  - Keil RealView Microcontroller Development Kit (MDK-ARM)
  - IAR Embedded Workbench
  - Code Sourcery GCC development tools
  - Code Red Technologies Code Suite development tools
  - Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio IDE