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New Third-Party Hardware & Software

With the introduction of four new devices, a new architecture, and the best price-to-performance ratio in the industry, TI’s powerful and cost-effective TMS320C2000 DSPs are offering designers of cost-sensitive applications a better way to implement their systems and future innovations.

For applications historically implemented with 8-, 16-, or 32-bit micro-controllers, the ’C2000 processor platform provides substantially more processing power, an easy-to-use development environment, and wide-ranging system flexibility with numerous peripherals. The highly-integrated ’C2000 DSPs deliver cost savings at both the device and system levels, enabling manufacturers of price-sensitive applications to efficiently incorporate the high performance of DSPs while maintaining the flexibility and functionality of traditional microcontrollers (MCUs).

New ’C24x DSPs optimized for digital control applications

’C24x DSPs are optimized for digital control systems (DCS), as well as power conversion and motion control systems. In addition to the original ’C240 [read-only memory (ROM)] and ’F240 (Flash) generation members, TI has now added the ’C241, ’C242, ’F241, and ’F243 DSPs to cost-effectively address systems with reduced memory requirements. The ’F241 and ’F243 are the only DSP controllers that offer industrial motor designers 8K of reprogrammable Flash memory and control area networking (CAN). The ’C241 offers 8K of ROM and CAN.

A breakthrough in price/performance

"The combination of TI’s powerful DSP processors and comprehensive digital motor control peripherals creates the industry’s most integrated and versatile DSP controller solutions for closed-loop motor control applications," says Pradeep Bardia, product marketing manager for the ’C24x family of DSPs.

’C24x devices are based on TI’s industry-leading DSP cores and on-chip peripherals. This combination provides flexibility, improved system price/performance ratios, and an affordable, easy-to-use alternative to traditional MCUs.

’C24x tools and support

Design tools for these devices include TI’s optimized DSP compiler, IEEE 1149.1 JTAG-based emulation tools, and evaluation module (EVM) boards. Also offered are high-level language programming options, flash-based utility programs, and source compatibility with other TMS320 fixed-point DSPs. TI’s third-party network offers emulation tools, motion control kit/application support packages, and a real-time DSP operating system/kernel library for this new family of DSP controllers.

Availability

• ’F241 and ’F243 sampling scheduled to begin 2Q98.
• ’C241 and ’C242 sampling scheduled to begin 3Q98.