The Texas Instruments Hercules LaunchPad development kit is used to designed to help you get started quickly in evaluating and developing with the Hercules microcontroller platform. It is based on the IEC 61508 SIL 3 and ISO 26262 ASIL D certified TMS570LS1224, which is a lockstep ARM Cortex-R4F based MCU with integrated safety features and peripherals such as two 12-bit ADCs, programmable High-End timers, motor control peripherals (eQEP, eCAP, ePWM), USB, Ethernet, MibSPI and serial communication interfaces. USB powered and capability for external 5v supply
On board USB XDS110 debug
On board SCI to PC serial communication
User programmable push buttons
Reset switches
LEDs and Ambient light sensor
Two 40 pin BoosterPack XL Headers
Footprint for expansion headers (not populated) to bring out all MCU Pins
External high-speed emulation via 14-pin TI-JTAG header (not populated)