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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-TM4C129X 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 TM4C129XNCZAD microcontroller, as well as

provide a starting point for the development of the applications for use on the DK-TM4C129X development

board.

3.2 Source Code

The complete source code is provided on the DK-TM4C129X USB flash drive. 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) in the References section of this document .

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

visit the website of the tools supplier.

3.4 Programming the DK-TM4C129X Board

The DK-TM4C129X software package includes pre-built binaries for each of the example applications. If

you installed the TivaWare™ software to the default installation path of C:\ti\TivaWare_C_Series-x.x, you

can find the example applications in C:\ti\TivaWare_C_Series-x.x\examples\boards\dk-tm4c129x. The on-

board ICDI is used with the LM Flash Programmer tool to program applications on the DK-TM4C129X

board.

Follow these steps to program example applications into the DK-TM4C129X development board using the

ICDI:

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