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Chapter 3

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Software Development

This chapter provides general information on software development as well as instructions for flash

memory programming.

3.1 Software Description

The software provided with the DK-TM4C123G provides access to all of the peripheral devices supplied in

the design. The TivaWare™ for C Series Peripheral Driver Library is used to operate the on-chip

peripherals.

The software includes a set of example applications that use the TivaWare™ Peripheral Driver Library.

These applications demonstrate the capabilities of the TM4C123GH6PGE microcontroller, as well as

provide a starting point for the development of the applications for use on the DK-TM4C123G

development board.

The DK-TM4C123G Development Kit USB flash drive also contains a Windows quickstart companion for

the Data Logger quickstart application. The companion application provides a strip-chart display for up to

16 channels of data from the DK-TM4C123G development board. The display for each channel can be

enabled or disabled and the data logged a comma-separated values (CSV) file.

3.2 Source Code

The complete source code is provided on the DK-TM4C123G USB flash drive including the source code

for the Windows quickstart companion application. See the README First document for a detailed

description of hardware setup and how to install the source code. The source code and binary files are

installed in the TivaWare™ software tree.

3.3 Tool Options

The source code installation includes directories containing projects and makefiles for the following tool-

chains:

• Keil ARM RealView® Microcontroller Development System

• IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM

• Sourcery Codebench

• Generic GNU C Compiler

• Texas Instruments' Code Composer Studio™ IDE

Download evaluation versions of these tools from the Tools & Software section of www.ti.com/tiva. Due to

code size restrictions, the evaluation tools may not build all example programs. A full license is necessary

to re-build or debug all examples.

Instructions on installing and using each of the evaluation tools can be found in the Quickstart guides (for

example, in the Keil Quickstart or IAR Quickstart) which are also available for download from the Tools &

Software section of www.ti.com/tiva.

For detailed information on using the tools, see the documentation included in the tool chain installation or

visit the website of the tools supplier.

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