Texas Instruments Peripheral Explorer Kit Quick Start Manual

Peripheral Explorer Kit Overview

Quick Start Guide

SPRUGM2 – January 2009

The Peripheral Explorer Kit is an evaluation board designed to allow experimentation with many of the
peripherals available in the C2000™ F28x family of microprocessors. The board is designed to accept any
of controlCARD and contains all hardware (controlCARD socket, power supply) required for normal usage.
The kit is self-contained and contains multiple experiments in which external equipment, such as
oscilloscopes, are not required. In the majority of these examples, one peripheral reads the output of a
different peripheral, confirming the operation of both.

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Features of the Peripheral Explorer Kit include:

• Multiple peripheral-based examples
– EPWM-based sinusoidal output based on a sine table

– DAC via filtered ePWM signal read by the on-chip ADC
– eCAP-based IR receiver reading
– SPI-based EEPROM interaction
– UART communications header available for host control
– Potentiomers for ADC evaluation
– GPIO-based components such as pushbuttons, hex encoder, and LEDs
– McBSP/DMA-based AIC23 codec software and hardware (F28335 only)
– I2C header for external use
– CAN header for external use

• Quick Start GUI, a friendly way to control / demo the application, based on open
source C# freeware

• Hardware Developer’s Package is available and includes full hardware
documentation such as schematics, bill of materials, and Gerber files.

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Potentiometers(ADC)

LEDs(GPIO)

CAN

JTAG

MainPower

(SW1)

+5VPowerIn

EEPROM

(SPI)

HexEncoder

(GPIO)

SCIBootPins

EPWMtoECAP
loopbackenable

DACoutput

(EPWM)

ADCPins

Audio-In

(McBSP)

Headphone-

Out

IRReceiver

(ECAP)

Comms(SCI)

Emulator

PowerJumper

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1 Hardware Overview

Hardware Overview

The Peripheral Explorer Kit consists of multiple peripheral based components. Figure 1 shows a diagram
of the Peripheral Explorer board and some of its key features.

Figure 1. Key Features of EVM Board

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