SPRACQ1 May   2020 TMS320F28374D , TMS320F28374S , TMS320F28375D , TMS320F28375S , TMS320F28376D , TMS320F28376S , TMS320F28377D , TMS320F28377S , TMS320F28379D , TMS320F28379S , TMS320F28384D , TMS320F28384D-Q1 , TMS320F28384S , TMS320F28384S-Q1 , TMS320F28386D , TMS320F28386D-Q1 , TMS320F28386S , TMS320F28386S-Q1 , TMS320F28388D , TMS320F28388S

 

  1.   Migration Between TMS320F2837x and TMS320F2838x
    1.     Trademarks
    2. 1 Feature Differences Between F2837x and F2838x
      1. 1.1 F2837x and F2838x Feature Comparison
    3. 2 PCB Hardware Changes
      1. 2.1 VDD Pin
      2. 2.2 VREGENZ Pin
      3. 2.3 Analog Pin Assignment
      4. 2.4 GPIO Pin Assignment
      5. 2.5 controlCARD
    4. 3 Feature Differences for System Consideration
      1. 3.1 New Features in F2838x Device
        1. 3.1.1  Fast Integer Division (FINTDIV)
        2. 3.1.2  VCRC Unit
        3. 3.1.3  EtherCAT Slave Controller (ESC)
        4. 3.1.4  Background CRC (BGCRC)
        5. 3.1.5  Diagnostic Features (PBIST/HWBIST)
        6. 3.1.6  Power Management Bus Module (PMBus)
        7. 3.1.7  Fast Serial Interface (FSI)
        8. 3.1.8  Embedded Real-time Analysis and Diagnostic (ERAD)
        9. 3.1.9  Dual-Clock Comparator (DCC)
        10. 3.1.10 Connectivity Manager (CM)
      2. 3.2 Features Differences/Enhancements in F2838x
        1. 3.2.1 System
          1. 3.2.1.1 Reset
          2. 3.2.1.2 Clocking
            1. 3.2.1.2.1 PLL
            2. 3.2.1.2.2 X1CNT
            3. 3.2.1.2.3 XCLKOUT
          3. 3.2.1.3 Pie Channel Mapping and Interrupt
            1. 3.2.1.3.1 SYS_ERR Interrupt
          4. 3.2.1.4 ERRORSTS Pin
        2. 3.2.2 Watchdog and NMI Watchdog
        3. 3.2.3 Memory
          1. 3.2.3.1 Internal SRAM/ROM
          2. 3.2.3.2 Flash
        4. 3.2.4 Dual Code Security Module (DCSM)
        5. 3.2.5 ROM Code and Peripheral Booting
        6. 3.2.6 External Memory Interface (EMIF)
        7. 3.2.7 Communication Modules
        8. 3.2.8 Control Modules
          1. 3.2.8.1 Enhanced Pulse Width Modulator (ePWM) and ePWM Sync Scheme
          2. 3.2.8.2 Enhanced Capture (eCAP)
          3. 3.2.8.3 Enhanced Quadrature Encoder Pulse (eQEP)
          4. 3.2.8.4 Sigma Delta Filter Module (SDFM)
        9. 3.2.9 Analog Modules
      3. 3.3 Other Device Changes
        1. 3.3.1 Bus Architecture
          1. 3.3.1.1 CLA and DMA Access
        2. 3.3.2 Control Law Accelerator (CLA)
        3. 3.3.3 Direct Memory Access (DMA)
      4. 3.4 Power Management
        1. 3.4.1 LDO/VREG
        2. 3.4.2 POR/BOR
      5. 3.5 Power Consumption
      6. 3.6 GPIO
        1. 3.6.1 GPIO Multiplexing Diagram
    5. 4 Application Code Migration From F2837x to F2838x
      1. 4.1 C2000Ware Driverlib Files
      2. 4.2 C2000Ware Header Files
      3. 4.3 Linker command Files
      4. 4.4 Minimum Compiler Version Requirement
      5. 4.5 EABI Support
        1. 4.5.1 Flash API
        2. 4.5.2 NoINIT Struct Fix (linker command)
        3. 4.5.3 Pre-Compiled Libraries
    6. 5 References

2.5 controlCARD

The F2838x device controlCARD has some changes due to additional modules like EtherCAT and EtherNET.

Table 2 provides details on some key differences between F2837x and the F2838x controlCARD.

Table 2. controlCARD Comparison

Feature Short Description F2838x F2837x
Input Clock Input clock via XTAL Rev-A - 20MHz default
Rev-B - 25MHz default		 20MHz
HD connector 60 pin high density connector support EMIF No. Removed to enable ECAT and ENET support Yes
EtherCAT - Yes NA
Ethernet - Yes NA
EMIF support through HSEC Edge connector’s EMIF support Yes (only 8 bit Data and no WAIT) Yes
USB - Yes Yes, selection jumper required
VDD and VDDIO Monitoring locations for VDDIO and VDD Test point and brought to HSEC for external monitoring Test Points
ERRORSTS Pin Monitoring locations for ERRORSTS Pin Test point and brought to HSEC for external monitoring Test Point
FSI header Yes
Rev-A - 1 data line support
Rev-B - 2 data line support		 NA