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If your end equipment needs a brain, TI’s ARM microprocessors (MPUs),

DaVinci™ digital video processors and DSP+ARM embedded processors

offer a solution. By utilizing ARM cores, specifically the ARM9™ and

Cortex™-A8 cores, and common peripheral sets, TI’s processors offer

highly reusable software code bases that allow you to easily scale within

the product family and across TI’s embedded processing portfolio. The

combination of high performance and a memory management unit (MMU)

on these MPUs enable support for high-level operating systems (HLOSs)

real-time operating systems (RTOSs), a variety of TI RTOS partners have

ported their own RTOSs and frameworks to TI’s AM1x ARM9- and AM3x

Cortex-A8-based MPUs. The list includes – but is not limited to – Green

ded design process, TI provides its StarterWare software packages,

offering user-friendly, production-ready software that does not require the

use of an operating system and gives you a good starting point if you

need to develop your own operating system.

Further simplifying the development process, TI allows you to go from

demo to development in minutes, with the availability of Linux EZ soft-

ware development kits (EZ SDK) and Android Development Kits (Dev Kits).

These SDKs, available across all TI MPUs, include royalty-free board sup-

port packages (BSPs), graphics SDKs, documentation, performance

benchmarks and example applications that can save time and money.

You can take full advantage of the processor, graphics and display sub-

systems and develop in your preferred environment with the Eclipse-

based Code Composer Studio™ IDE, a variety of OS-specific tools and

extended debugging capability with TI/commercial JTAG emulators.

For more information visit

www.ti.com/embeddedsw

processors and provides a total system solution with production-ready

software tools that are skillfully architected to be modular and reusable

across multiple processors, designs and development environments.

Software ranks as one of the leading development costs of embedded

systems and the instruction-set compatibility of the ARM architecture, in

conjunction with TI’s extensive ARM portfolio, enables developers to

maximize code reuse to reduce system cost and speed time to market

while enabling you to more effectively differentiate your products.

TI and our partners offer a variety of Hercules development kits, tools and

software components designed to accelerate and simplify the develop-

ment process.

Each Hercules development kit comes with Code Composer Studio™

(CCStudio) Integrated Development Environment (IDE), TI utilities, docu-

mentation, hardware schematics, and code examples. TI utilities include

a Hardware Abstraction Layer Code Generation (HALCoGen) tool which

provides a graphical user interface that allows the user to configure

peripherals, interrupts, clocks, and other microcontroller parameters.

Once the device is configured, the user can generate peripheral initializa-

tion and driver code, which can then be easily imported into CCStudio

IDE, IAR Workbench, or Keil µVision. Hercules Safety MCUs are also sup-

ported by multiple RTOS which are being used in safety and mission crit-

ical applications today such as SAFERTOS from High Integrity Systems,

µC/OS-II™ from Micrium, and ThreadX from Express Logic.

For other RTOS, TI utilities, and software components available please

visit our website at

Hercules™ software and tools

M4F MCUs

even interrupt service routines and startup code. Our StellarisWare soft-

ware (

designed to simplify and speed development of Stellaris-based microcon-

troller applications, containing:

• Stellaris Peripheral Driver Library for Stellaris peripheral initialization

and control functions

• Stellaris USB Library for USB device, USB host or USB On-the-Go (OTG)

applications

• Stellaris Graphics Library for graphical display support

Features and benefits:

• Free license and royalty-free use (for use with Stellaris MCUs).

• Simplify and speed the development of applications – can be used for

application development or as a programming example.

• Allow the creation of full-function, easy-to-maintain code.

• Written entirely in C except where absolutely not possible. Even written

in C, the software is reasonably efficient in terms of memory and

instruction set.

• Take full advantage of the stellar interrupt performance of the Cortex-M

core, without requiring any special pragmas or

custom assembly code prologue/epilogue

functions.

• Can be compiled with error-checking

code (for development use) or without

(for final production use in an MCU

with a smaller memory configuration).

• Available as both object library and

source code, so that the library can be

used as-is or adapted as desired.

TI ARM microcontroller software simplifies and speeds development