Delfino C28346 Experimenter's Kit

Ok thank you for your reply.

If the C28346 processor and the board do not provide the ADC functionality... What is the idea behind it if someone needs ADCs and still wishes to work with that Processor+ControlCard? Attach additional daughter boards of some kind? Or is ADC just not possible (seems really strange to me) and I have to drop the idea of working with this Processor+ControlCard?

RobinVujanic said:

If the C28346 processor and the board do not provide the ADC functionality... What is the idea behind it if someone needs ADCs and still wishes to work with that Processor+ControlCard? Attach additional daughter boards of some kind? Or is ADC just not possible (seems really strange to me) and I have to drop the idea of working with this Processor+ControlCard?

As I mentioned, the TMDXCNCD28343 controlCARD has an ADC on board.  This controlCARD uses a similar device, the TMS320F28343 which runs at 200MHz and has a little less RAM on board.

That didn't really answer my question but I'll leave it at that and see whether I can do with the C28343 [^o)]

So ok, I have had a look at it; on this page http://focus.ti.com/mcu/docs/mcuprodmsptoolsw.tsp?sectionId=95&tabId=1222&familyId=916&toolTypeId=1 however, it seems that the "Baseline Software" for that particular Experimenter's Kit (C28343) is missing but that was due for end March 2009. What is up with that?

Other two questions with respect to this product:

1) Are there code examples that illustrate how to operate the ADC using the C28343 Experimenter's Kit?

2) I hope this will make sense. Later on I will be interested in using some of the pins in order to trigger interrupts on rising edges incoming on these pins. How does the square wave, from which the rising edges are to be extracted, need to look like? I mean what is considered as a logic low Vs logic high? Can you point me to the pertinent literature/specs?

RobinVujanic said:

That didn't really answer my question but I'll leave it at that and see whether I can do with the C28343

If the C28346 processor and the board do not provide the ADC functionality... What is the idea behind it if someone needs ADCs and still wishes to work with that Processor+ControlCard? Attach additional daughter boards of some kind? Or is ADC just not possible (seems really strange to me) and I have to drop the idea of working with this Processor+ControlCard?

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If you want to use the TMS320C28346 controlCARD and it's associated Experimenter's board, the TMDXCNCD28346, then you could use the prototyping area of the experimenter's kit docking station to connect to an external ADC EVM.  This would be the only path at this time using the TMDXCNCD28346-168 controlCARD.

RobinVujanic said:

So ok, I have had a look at it; on this page http://focus.ti.com/mcu/docs/mcuprodmsptoolsw.tsp?sectionId=95&tabId=1222&familyId=916&toolTypeId=1 however, it seems that the "Baseline Software" for that particular Experimenter's Kit (C28343) is missing but that was due for end March 2009. What is up with that?

Will check on this.

RobinVujanic said:

Other two questions with respect to this product:

1) Are there code examples that illustrate how to operate the ADC using the C28343 Experimenter's Kit?

There are code examples for the C2834x device.  These are available in SPRC876 which is found on the TMS320F28343 Product Folder as well.  Regarding using the ADC on the C28343 Experimenter's kit controlCARD, this would likely come from the aforementioned Baseline Software.

RobinVujanic said:

2) I hope this will make sense. Later on I will be interested in using some of the pins in order to trigger interrupts on rising edges incoming on these pins. How does the square wave, from which the rising edges are to be extracted, need to look like? I mean what is considered as a logic low Vs logic high? Can you point me to the pertinent literature/specs?

The datasheet and relevant user's guides are available on the TMS320F28343 Product Folder.  In terms of understanding the Vil and Vih, please reference the datasheet.  In addition, some timings regarding the various interfaces will be available in the datasheet.

For functional operation, the relevant peripheral user's guide would be the place to consult.

Robin,

The Baseline installer actually already has support for the C28343 DIMM100 controlCARD Docking station.  Download any of the DIMM100 controlCARD docking stations Baseline installer and install it. (each baseline installer is actually the same software).  This issue will be fixed soon.

Thank you,
Brett Larimore

Robin,

I am in the same boat that you were trying to float last year. I have the experimenter's kit of TMS320C28346 and evaluation board of the ADC  ADS8472. I am picking up some conversation you had.

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There are code examples for the C2834x device.  These are available in SPRC876 which is found on the TMS320F28343 Product Folder as well.  Regarding using the ADC on the C28343 Experimenter's kit controlCARD, this would likely come from the aforementioned Baseline Software.

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So did you find any example code that shows how to use external ADC on any of these delfino boards ?

I would sure appreciate if any of the TI rep. can chip in and provide the example code.

I too, would benefit from some example code. I chose the C28346 DIMM 168 control card and experimenter board specifically because the other control boards did not have enough A/D channels for my application, so I am stuck implementing external A/Ds.  I have the ADS8558 EVM as well, but am struggling to successfully interface this board to the C28346 controller.

Thanks,

Andy

This is more of an update than a correction.

I recently acquired the 28346 Experimetnters Kit (http://www.ti.com/tool/tmdsdock28346-168).

As we have a number of XDS510 and 560 JTAG probes, the need for a external JTAG was not an issue.

However, when I unboxed it, I noticed there was an FTDI FT2232 USB-JTAG chip on board. I was able to get the TI XDS-100 v2 drivers to utilize this chip. This chip was not on V1 of the base board.

The schematic of the baseboard may be found in your ControlSuite install

<ControlSUITE_DIR> \development_kits\~ExperimentersKits\DIM168ExperimentersKit-HWdev_R02_Pkg\DIM168_USB_EXPERIMENTERS_BDR02.pdf

The control card schematic is in

<ControlSUITE_DIR> \development_kits\~controlCARDs\DIM168CC2834xHWdevPkg\CC2834x-168_Rev1_1_Schematic.pdf

I dont think these dirs are installed by the default ControlSuite install. I think you need to do a custom install. The control suite version I used was sprca85.zip v2.7.0

http://www.ti.com/tool/controlsuite

The web page for the experimenters kit (linked above) still specifies the need for an external JTAG. Since the FTDI chip is on the baseboard (version 2 of this) perhaps this is just out of date.

I did have to reinstall the drivers as the initial connection of the board cause an incomplete install (for both me and a colleague on different machines)

Code examples may be found in

<ControlSUITE_DIR> \device_support\c2834x\v112\DSP2834x_examples_ccsv4