Texas Instruments: Stellaris Based RDK-IDM-L35 Display Reference Design Kit

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Kit Overview

Texas Instruments Stellaris 3.5-inch Landscape Intelligent Display Reference Design Kit (RDK-IDM-L35 ) offers a complete, open-tool graphical touch-screen user interface design solution for control, automation, and instrumentation applications. Based on the feature-rich Stellaris LM3S1958 microcontroller, the new intelligent display module featured in the kit (MDL-IDM-L35 ) combines a complete 3.5-inch QVGA landscape-oriented touch-screen user interface with several serial, digital, and analog connectivity options for easy implementation as a Human Machine Interface (HMI) touch display panel in an embedded control device. Software development for the RDK-IDM-L35 is simplified by using the comprehensive StellarisWare Peripheral Library and Graphics Library in conjunction with ARM development tools from ARM tools partners.

The Stellaris LM3S1958 microcontroller is based on the ARM Cortex-M3 controller core operating at up to 50 MHz, with 256 kB flash and 64 kB SRAM. The LM3S1958-IQC50-A2 also features real-time industrial connectivity, with 2 SSI / SPI controllers, 2 I2C interfaces, and 3 UARTs. The microcontroller also features intelligent analog capability, including .8 channels of highly accurate 10-bit analog-to-digital conversion - with the ability to sample at speeds of 1M samples per second.

Finally, the LM3S1958-IQC50-A2 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 52 GPIOs.

Ordering Information:

Part Number	Description
MDL-IDM-L35	Stellaris Intelligent Display Module with 3.5" Landscape Display for Single-Unit Packaging
RDK-IDM-L35	Stellaris Intelligent Display Module with 3.5" Landscape Display Reference Design Kit (RDK)
MDL-IDM-L35-B	Stellaris Intelligent Display Module with 3.5" Landscape Display for Volume Packaging

Key Applications: Motor Control, Industrial Automation, Wireless Networking, Medical, Security and Access, Appliance, 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	ColinkEx	ARM Cortex-M	ARM Cortex-M MCU JTAG Hardware Debugging Probe which supports in CooCox software and Keil Realview MDK
Emulator / Debugger / Programmer	ARM	ULINK2	ARM Cortex-M / ARM7 / ARM9	ULINK2 Debug Adapter
Emulator / Debugger / Programmer	ARM	ULINKPro	ARM Cortex-M / ARM7 / ARM9	ULINKpro Debug and Trace Unit
Emulator	Segger	J-Link	ARM Cortex-M / Cortex-R4 / Cortex-A / ARM7 / ARM9	JTAG/SWD Emulator with USB interface
Programmer	Segger	Flasher ARM	ARM Cortex-M / Cortex-R4 / Cortex-A / ARM7 / ARM9	Flash Programmer for ARM and Cortex cores

Technical Documents

Learning Center

Type	Description
Data Sheet	Texas Instruments: Datasheet For IDM-L35 Board
User Guide	Texas Instruments: READ ME FIRST-RDK-S2E Kit
Tutorials	Texas Instruments: Tutorials on RDK-S2E(Serial-to-Ethernet Module)
User Manual	Texas Instruments: User’s Manual For RDK-IDM-L35 Board
Product Brief	Texas Instruments: Product Brief For RDK-IDM-L35 Board
Solution Guide	Texas Instruments: Solutions on Industrial Automation
Product Brief	Texas Instruments: Release Notes on StellarisWare
User Guide	Texas Instruments: User Guide on Stellaris Graphics Library
Product Brief	Texas Instruments: Product Brief For Stellaris LM3S1958 Microcontroller
Selection Guide	Texas Instruments: Stellaris Family Selection Guide
User Manual	Texas Instruments: User's Manual For Stellaris IDM-L35
Datasheet	Texas Instruments: Data Sheet For Stellaris LM3S1958 IDM-L35 Board
User Guide	Texas Instruments: Stellaris- Readme First Guide(Rev. A)
Datasheet	Texas Instruments: Microcontroller Data Sheet For Stellaris LM3S1958 (Rev. F)
Product Brief	Texas Instruments: Product Brief For Stellaris LM3S1958 IDM-L35 Reference Design Kit
Product Brief	Texas Instruments: Technical Overview on ARM Platform
Tutorials	Texas Instruments: Stellaris family MCU Overview

Design Elements

Type	Description
Application Library	Texas Instruments: AN0126 - Sample Code for Using Stellaris Microcontrollers Internal Flash Memory to Emulate EEPROM
Application Library	Texas Instruments: AN01245 - Sample Code for Creating an Autonomous Car with the Stellaris LM3S Microcontroller
Application Library	Texas Instruments: AN01242 - Sample Code for Using the Stellaris Serial Flash Loader
Application Library	Texas Instrument: AN01274 - Sample Code for Configuring Stellaris with Pin Multiplexing

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Kit Features

The RDK-IDM-L35 ships with the software-customizable MDL-IDM-L35 module.

The MDL-IDM-L35 features the following:

Bright QVGA LCD touch-screen display
- 3.5" QVGA 320 x 240 pixels
- 262K colors
- White LED backlight
- Resistive touch panel
Serial connectivity options
- RS232 serial port with RS232 signal levels
- UART serial port with TTL signal levels
High performance and memory
- Built around a Stellaris LM3S1958 microcontroller
- 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 core
- 256 KB Main Flash memory, 64 KB SRAM
- microSD slot (typically 1-2 GB storage)
Flexible power supply options
- 5 V power supply with DC regulator that generates 3.3 V for powering the board
Easy to customize - full source code and design files including:
- Schematics and BOM
- Gerber files
- Example applications included
Develop using development tools from Keil, IAR, Code Sourcery, Code Red Technologies, and GCC
- Supported by Stellaris Graphics Library
- Supported by Stellaris Peripheral Driver Library

Kit Contents

Stellaris Intelligent QVGA 3.5” Touch Panel Module (MDL-IDM-L35 ) with metal standoffs
USB to TTL serial cable to simultaneously power the board and connect to the LM3S1958 Stellaris microcontroller via UART0
JTAG debug adapter for 10-pin fine-pitch connection to a standard 20-pin connector
Quickstart Guide, User’s Manual, Software Reference Manual, Board Data Sheet, source code, BOM, schematics, and Gerber files on CD