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Architectural Overview
Texas Instrument's Tiva™ C Series microcontrollers provide designers a high-performance ARM
®
Cortex
™
-M-based architecture with a broad set of integration capabilities and a strong ecosystem
of software and development tools. Targeting performance and flexibility, the Tiva™ C Series
architecture offers a 120 MHz Cortex-M with FPU, a variety of integrated memories and multiple
programmable GPIO. Tiva™ C Series devices offer consumers compelling cost-effective solutions
by integrating application-specific peripherals and providing a comprehensive library of software
tools which minimize board costs and design-cycle time. Offering quicker time-to-market and cost
savings, the Tiva™ C Series microcontrollers are the leading choice in high-performance 32-bit
applications.
This chapter contains an overview of the Tiva™ C Series microcontrollers as well as details on the
TM4C1294NCPDT microcontroller:
■ “Tiva™ C Series Overview” on page 51
■ “TM4C1294NCPDT Microcontroller Overview” on page 52
■ “TM4C1294NCPDT Microcontroller Features” on page 55
■ “TM4C1294NCPDT Microcontroller Hardware Details” on page 78
■ “Kits” on page 79
■ “Support Information” on page 79
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Tiva™ C Series Overview
The Tiva™ C Series ARM Cortex-M4 microcontrollers provide top performance and advanced
integration. The product family is positioned for cost-effective applications requiring significant control
processing and connectivity capabilities such as:
■ Industrial communication equipment
■ Network appliances, gateways & adapters
■ Residential & commercial site monitoring & control
■ Remote connectivity & monitoring
■ Security/access systems
■ HMI control panels
■ Factory automation control
■ Test and measurement equipment
■ Fire & security systems
■ Motion control & power inversion
■ Medical instrumentation
■ Gaming equipment
■ Electronic point-of-sale (POS) displays
■ Smart Energy/Smart Grid solutions
■ Intelligent lighting control
■ Vehicle tracking
Tiva™ C Series microcontrollers integrate a large variety of rich communication features to enable
a new class of highly connected designs with the ability to allow critical, real-time control between
performance and power. The microcontrollers feature integrated communication peripherals along
with other high-performance analog and digital functions to offer a strong foundation for many
different target uses, spanning from human machine interface to networked system management
controllers.
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Texas Instruments-Production Data
Tiva
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TM4C1294NCPDT Microcontroller