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

3.3.2 Control Law Accelerator (CLA)

CLA is an independent, fully-programmable, 32-bit floating-point math processor that brings concurrent control-loop execution to the C28x device family. CLA on the F2838x devices is of "Type 2", whereas F2837x has "Type 1" CLA.

Below is the list of enhancements made in "Type 2" CLA on the F2838x devices:

  • "Type 2" CLA supports background task. The background task is enabled by setting the BGEN bit in the MCTLBGRND register. When enabled, Task 8 act as background task and once triggered, runs continuously until you either terminate it or reset the CLA or the device. The background task derives its interrupt vector from the MVECTBGRND register instead of MVECT8.
  • On "Type 2" CLA instruction fetch access can be stalled. It was not supported on earlier version of CLA (CLA on F2837x).
  • Below is the list of debug related enhancement:
    • Addition of MDEBUGSTOP1 instruction to support true software breakpoints on CLA
    • Addition of two hardware breakpoints as well

Additional trigger source was added to support the new module on F2838x. For more details on the Analog module, see the TMS320F2838x Microcontrollers Technical Reference Manual.