TMS320F28023 , Piccolo Series

S.Chatterjee

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Hello Everyone,

A customer wants to use the TMS320F28023 chip but they would like to know if this device support a hardware.software LIN interface?

Considering SCI interface is one of the modules on board, the answer they are expecting is "hopefully yes", but they would like confirmation of this. Also if anyone can point me to relevant code example, API etc. With LIN implementation?, this would be great.

Regards,

S.Chatterjee

over 16 years ago

David M. Alter over 16 years ago

TI__Guru 61235 points

2802x series does not have hardware LIN. You need to go to the 2803x series for that. I suppose you could do the LIN bus in software using the SCI, but I believe there would be a lot of software overhead. I am not familiar with this, as I've never done it.

Regards,

David

Hareesh Janakiraman over 16 years ago in reply to David M. Alter

TI__Guru* 95315 points

Sutirtha,

Yes, you can emulate LIN using the SCI, but as Dave mentioned it involves a lot of software overhead. Depending on the application, it may not be feasible. Dedicated LIN hardware relieves CPU load.

For a s/w implementation, tasks that would need to be taken care of by either a hardware timer module or a software timer:
- Keep track of timeslots by master task (all nodes expecting a frame).
- Detect start of a frame. A stream of zeroes for more than a 0x00 byte frame (9 zeros), usually 11 zeros threshold is used here.

Customer may be better off with a hardware LIN.