Many moons ago, Jonathan had someone (Chris Grill) designing programming
boards for the TMS570 since the one we use was obsolete. That never went
anywhere. I recently saw a bunch for sale and bought them up and now have
10-ish additional boards. In addition, Carl Wick designed a nice little 3D
printed case for them.
Right now, Zach, Rich, Bob Strickland, and I have at least one board and
Rich and I have a couple prototype cases.
My question is: Is someone other than Golf-TEE folks and Pacsat really
planning to use the TMS570 and could benefit from the programming boards?
If not immediately, I can hold onto them, but I don't want anyone to waste
time trying to build or buy them again now that we have plenty.
73,
Burns Fisher, WB1FJ
*AMSAT(R) Engineering -- Flight Software*
PS: To be clear, there are at least three ways to load a program into a
TMS570: One is via a LaunchPad evaluation board, which has something
similar to the programming board built in. Another is a TI XDS110
programming device (a $200 piece of hardware that may or may not be
available). And third using this board that I am talking about, a $20
board called a SensorTag board. (And Heimir has also written a boot loader
to load via a serial port, but it must be loaded using one of the above
methods in order to be used).
