TI announces that its Hercules MCU has been certified by TüV SüD

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Certified by TüV SüD, these MCUs support the rigorous functional safety standards for automotive, industrial and general purpose safety related applications.

The new LaunchPad Development Kit simplifies the development of certified MCUs.

Beijing, December 15, 2014 -- Automotive and industrial systems are becoming more complex, which undoubtedly increases the burden on original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to ensure the safety of their systems. To help customers meet this challenge, Texas Instruments (TI) announced that its Hercules® TMS570LS12x/11x and RM46x microcontrollers (MCUs) have been certified by TÜV SüD to comply with ISO 26262 (2011 version) and IEC 61508 (2010 version). ) Requirements for functional safety standards for ASIL D and SIL 3 safety integrity levels. This helps OEMs to spend less time and effort to get their products certified. In addition, TI has announced two new LaunchPad development kits that provide a low-cost entry-level option for developers who want to perform functional safety features and performance evaluations on such certified MCUs.

TI certified MCU

Based on the previously completed SafeTITM hardware development process certification and successful evaluation of the Hercules MCU platform architecture concept, the Hercules TMS570LS12x/11X MCU has been certified to ISO 26262 (2011 version) and IEC 61508 (2010 version) for ASIL D and SIL 3 security. Relevant requirements for integrity levels. With MCU frequencies up to 180 MHz, these MCUs help developers create functional safety-related applications for the automotive and transportation industries. The automotive industry standard TMS570LS12x/11X MCUs also offer a wide range of performance, memory and peripheral options to help meet a variety of system needs.

The high-performance Hercules RM46x MCU is certified to meet the requirements of the IEC 61508 (2010 version) for the SIL 3 safety integrity level. These MCUs are up to 220 MHz and support industrial and general purpose safety related applications. In addition, the RM46x MCU offers a variety of performance and memory configurations as well as target motor control.

The Hercules MCU integrates advanced diagnostics to detect and respond to runtime errors and help create a “safe island” for safety-critical processing without significant software overhead. The integrated diagnostic architecture includes dual ARM® Cortex®-R4 floating-point CPUs running in lockstep mode, CPU and SRAM built-in self-test (BIST) mechanisms, flash and RAM interfaces, and memory-detectable double-bit errors and correcting single-bit errors And transaction based error correction code (ECC).

Hercules LaunchPads simplifies evaluation

Developers can now evaluate the TüV SüD-certified Hercules TMS570LS12x/11X and RM46x MCUs with two new LaunchPad development kits. Each of these modular Quick Start development tools includes a development board, USB cable, and a quick start guide to quickly launch an out-of-the-box evaluation system. On-board emulation and Hercules MCU functional safety demonstrations allow for the exploration of advanced functional safety features integrated into Hercules MCUs. The LaunchPad suite provides HALCoGen software, a GUI-based code generation tool that helps developers speed up code development for Hercules MCUs. In addition, the software can be downloaded directly and supported by TI's latest Eclipse-based Code Composer StudioTM Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

SafeTI Design Pack

The TMS570LS12x/11X and RM46x microcontrollers are part of SafeTI's functional safety software package, which provides functional safety-related documentation, support forums, tools and software to make it easier for OEMs to implement functional safety with their functional safety-critical systems. Certify and speed up the product launch process.

Availability

The Hercules TMS570LS12x/11x and RM46x MCUs are certified to TÜV SüD and are ready for production in your next functional safety application. The TMS570LS12x/11x and RM46x MCUs are available now.

The Hercules TMS570LS12x/11x LaunchPad (LAUNCHXL-TMS57012) and RM46x LaunchPad (LAUNCHXL-RM46) are currently selling through TI's online store (eStore). Once developers are familiar with the Hercules TMS570LS12x/11x and RM46x MCUs with the new LaunchPad, they can take the design to the next level with a variety of other Hercules MCU tools.