Other Parts Discussed in Thread: MSP432E401Y
Tool/software:
Good morning E2E,
My department has been adopting more Ti MCUs into our laboratory devices over the past couple years. We’ve been migrating from other embedded platforms, and the transition has been smooth so far. In the interest of saving my team some development time, I was hoping to get some advice.
In the past, we’ve had success using other MCUs to drive touch displays over SPI/Parallel using LVGL. We have a new project that requires a GUI, and we are looking for a chip from Texas Instruments that fits the bill. So far, with your help, I’ve been able to narrow it down to two chips: The MSP432E411Y and the TM4C129.
Q1) Do either of these chips have *active* LaunchPads with their LCD interface broken out?
We’ve used a few chips from the SimpleLink-family in the past (I am a big fan of the MSP432E401Y). I looked through the “kentectouchwidgets” FreeRTOS example, and it happens to use LVGL as well! We could use this example as a very convenient jumping-off-point for our current project.
The Tiva C chip, on the other hand, has a wonderfully vast repertoire of documentation. There seems to be a disproportionately large quantity of literature on various helpful subjects, such as using the Tiva’s drivers, board layout recommendation, etc. This is very tempting to my department as it could save us a lot of R&D effort.
Q2) Does the TM4C129 have any RTOS examples available that I could look through (perhaps also using LVGL)? I wasn’t able to find any in the SDK.
From what I understand, the SimpleLink SDK is mainly focused on the easy addition of interconnectivity expansion such as Ethernet / WiFi. Some of our future projects may require this, but the current one does not.
Q3) Are there any advantages to using the SimpleLink SDK over the TivaWare SDK, or vice versa?
Q4) Which chip would you personally suggest adopting currently in 2024?
We would very much appreciate any guidance you can offer,
Dan
