Licensing: Tiva™ C Series TM4C123G LaunchPad

I hope following materials will answer your questions 

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Licensing_-_CCS

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Stellaris_support_in_CCS#What_CCS_License_types_support_Stellaris.3F

Regards,
Maciej 

Is your answer, "there is no code limit for Tiva?"

The second link says, "With the free license you are restricted to using the development board that comes with the Stellaris development kits, there will be no code size limit."

Next question:  Is Stellaris == Tiva ?

Also, how does the IDE verify which board you're on?  Will I not be able to use the free license with a board I've made based on what I'll learn from the development kit?  I'm evaluating the chipset as a hobbiest.  If I like it, I may use it in designs at work (because I only design with chips I'm familiar with).  

Hi Mark

just to confirm for you

1 - yes Stellaris = Tiva ... there was  a rebranding

2 - there is no more code size limited license and never was for these parts

3 - your only choice is to use an xds100 or the emulator on an evm.  You are correct evms are recognized.

Does this help?

Best  Regards,

Lisa

Please clarify something for me:  The Tiva development board looks like it has a JTAG portion that may be repurposed to program/debug microcontrollers other than the one physically attached to the development kit.  Is this true?  I originally pre-ordered this kit months ago when it was first announced, so I don't remember all the details I painstakingly researched back then.

I had previous experience with the Arm Cortex-M3 offering from NXP (LPC1343 LPCXpresso), but I was unhappy with the small Flash, third party tools that were limited to 32K and the lack of FPU (Yea Cortex M4).  I remember I selected the Tiva after researching all the M4 vendors because it looked like TI had the best of everything: fast, large Flash, FREE IDE made by TI, FPU, lots of helpful examples (TivaWare) and multiple supported RTOSes, including the one made by TI.  Am I remembering all these things correctly?  If so, I am quite excited to get started.  I was planning on separating the Tiva dev kit's programmer and using it for programming/debugging boards I end up making based on what I learn from the dev kit.

Hi Mark,

I suspect it may be connect an external emulator, not another mcu.  However I am moving this to the stellaris forum for you.

Best Regards,
Lisa 

Mark Taylor said:

I was planning on separating the Tiva dev kit's programmer and using it for programming/debugging boards I end up making based on what I learn from the dev kit.

[While the Wiki page is written for the Stellaris LaunchPad I assume it also applies to the Tiva LanchPad]