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1.1 Kit Contents

The DK-TM4C129X Development Kit comes with the following:

• DK-TM4C129X development board

• On board In-Circuit Debug Interface (ICDI)

• Cables:

– Two USB Micro-B plug to USB-A plug cables

– USB Micro-A plug to USB-A receptacle cable

– Cat5 ethernet cable

• USB Flash drive containing:

– Complete documentation

– TivaWare™ for C Series Peripheral Driver Library and example source code

– A supported evaluation version of all of the following:

• Texas Instruments’ Code Composer Studio™ IDE

• Keil™ RealView® Microcontroller Development Kit (MDK-ARM)

• IAR Embedded Workbench® development tools

• Sourcery CodeBench™ development tools (time limited)

• GCC

1.2 Using the DK-TM4C129X

The recommended steps for using the DK-TM4C129X development kit are:

1. Follow the "Getting Stated Guide" document included in the kit. The Getting Started Guide

document will help get the DK-TM4C129X development board up and running in minutes.

2. Use your preferred ARM tool-chain and the Tiva Peripheral Driver Library to develop an

application. Software applications are loaded using the on-board In-Circuit Debug Interface (ICDI).

See Chapter 3, Software Development, for the programming procedure. The TivaWare Peripheral

Driver Library User's Guide contains specific information on software structure and function.

3. Customize and integrate the hardware to suit an end application. This user's manual is an

important reference for understanding circuit operation and completing hardware modification.

1.3 Features

The DK-TM4C129X development kit includes the following features:

• Tiva TM4C129X Microcontroller

– 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M4F core

• QVGA color display with resistive touch screen

• 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX controller with internal PHY

• USB Micro-AB connector for Host/Device/OTG

• microSD card slot

• 3 navigation buttons

• User tricolor LED

• Precision 3.0V reference

• Quad SSI to 512 Mbit flash

• BoosterPack XL connector for expansion

• BoosterPack connector for expansion

• EM connector for wireless applications

• Available I/O brought out to headers on 0.1" grid

– ULPI USB external PHY (for high speed USB 2.0)

SPMU360–October 2013 DK-TM4C129X Overview

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