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Original question:

CCS/TIDM-DELFINO-ETHERCAT: EtherCAT BoosterPack

TIDM-DELFINO-ETHERCAT: BOOSTXL-ETHERCAT and LaunchPAD XL TMS320F28379D

John MacGregor
Prodigy 170 points
Part Number: TIDM-DELFINO-ETHERCAT

Are the design files available for the BOOTXL-ETHERCAT available in Altium Designer format?

I'd rather buy one but maybe I have to make one?

Thanks

John

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    TI__Mastermind 29166 points

    Hi John,

    I do not know if we have design files for this board, I will have to check. I also want to warn you that we do not have the capability to provide good design support for EtherCAT for the F2837X devices. 

    Also, we are trying to understand why some customers wish to use EtherCAT with the F2837X device instead of F2838X or F28P65X. Could you please tell me more about why you want to use F2837X for etherCAT instead of one of these newer devices? If you are more comfortable sharing this information offline, please send me a private message (I have just sent you a friend request). We would greatly appreciate this information, since it will impact our decision on how we will support F2837X etherCAT boards going forward.

    Best Regards,

    Ben Collier

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    Prodigy 170 points

    Ben,

    Thanks for the reply.  I was unaware of the LaunchPad F28P65x - that will solve my problem.  

    I've ordered a couple and will test them out with my Beckhoff PLCs.  I will probably end up making my own version as I need to interface to some PLDs that need address/data/read/write signals and maybe more RAM as well.

    Are Altium files available for this board?

    I've been a bit shy about using large BGA chips.

    Thanks again

    John

  • 0 in reply to John MacGregor
    TI__Mastermind 29166 points

    Hi John,

    You can download design files from here: https://www.ti.com/tool/download/SPRR483

    Best Regards,

    Ben Collier

  • 0 in reply to Benjamin Collier
    Prodigy 170 points

    I was not up to date on the F28P65X processor and my main issue is, like in the movie Amadeus, too many pins.

    Our main control circuit board has many interfaces and is expensive to build in our quantities but I need to make it EtherCAT compatible.

    So my thought is to have a small dual core EtherCAT processor (similar to your P65X launchpad)  board mounted on top of the main control card.  The EtherCAT card would contain all the control software for EtherCAT and our control software for the main control board.  It would  communicate to the main control board via FSI via a stacking connector.  A smaller (PQFP) processor, on the main PCB, would communicate with the EtherCAT board using the FSI header.

    It would then control the peripherals on the main control board  using the EMIF bus.  This way the PLD logic would maintain its 16 bit bus interface to the peripherals.

    Any recommendations about the smallest P65x like device with FSI, EMIF ? And not BGA.

    Thanks for your assistance.

    John

  • 0 in reply to John MacGregor
    TI__Mastermind 29166 points

    John,

    In the datasheet, we have a section called the Device Comparison table, which probably has the information you are looking for. It sounds like you would want one of the 176-pin packages.

    Best Regards,

    Ben Collier