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RM57L843
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9 Device and Documentation Support
9.1 Device Support
9.1.1 Development Support
Texas Instruments (TI) offers an extensive line of development tools for the Hercules™ Safety generation
of MCUs, including tools to evaluate the performance of the processors, generate code, develop algorithm
implementations, and fully integrate and debug software and hardware modules.
The following products support development of Hercules™-based applications:
Software Development Tools
• Code Composer Studio™ Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
– C/C++ Compiler
– Code generation tools
– Assembler/Linker
– Cycle Accurate Simulator
• Application algorithms
• Sample applications code
Hardware Development Tools
• Development and evaluation boards
• JTAG-based emulators - XDS100 v2, XDS200, XDS560™ v2 emulator
• Flash programming tools
• Power supply
• Documentation and cables
9.1.2 Device and Development-Support Tool Nomenclature
To designate the stages in the product development cycle, TI assigns prefixes to the part numbers of
all devices.Each device has one of three prefixes: X, P, or null (no prefix) (for example, xRM46L852).
These prefixes represent evolutionary stages of product development from engineering prototypes
through fully qualified production devices/tools.
Device development evolutionary flow:
x Experimental device that is not necessarily representative of the final device's electrical
specifications and may not use production assembly flow.
P Prototype device that is not necessarily the final silicon die and may not necessarily meet
final electrical specifications.
null Fully-qualified production device.
x and P devices and TMDX development-support tools are shipped against the following disclaimer:
"Developmental product is intended for internal evaluation purposes."
Production devices have been characterized fully, and the quality and reliability of the device have
been demonstrated fully. TI's standard warranty applies.
Predictions show that prototype devices have a greater failure rate than the standard production
devices. Texas Instruments recommends that these devices not be used in any production system
because their expected end-use failure rate still is undefined. Only qualified production devices are to
be used.
Figure 9-1 shows the numbering and symbol nomenclature for the RM57L843.