Cortex-R5F Sitara™ AM243x Microcontrollers from Texas Instruments

Arm® Cortex®-R5F based AM243x Microcontroller family from Texas Instruments is built for industrial applications, such as motor drives and remote I/O modules, which require a combination of real-time communications and processing. The AM243x is designed for best-in-class real-time performance and provides high performance Arm® Cortex®-R5F cores, Tightly-Coupled Memory banks, configurable SRAM partitioning, and dedicated low-latency paths to and from peripherals for rapid data movement in and out of the SoC.

Key Features

Up to 2× Dual-core Arm Cortex®-R5F MCU subsystems at up to 800 MHz
1× Single-core Arm Cortex®-M4F MCU at up to 400 MHz
Up to 2MB of On-chip RAM
DDR Subsystem (DDRSS) supportingLPDDR4, DDR4 memory types
1× Flash Subsystem (FSS) that can be configured
- as one Octal SPI (OSPI) or
- one Quad SPI (QSPI) flash interface

Security features

Secure Boot supported
Support for cryptographic acceleration
Debugging security

UDE - Universal Debug Engine for Sitara™ AM243x Microcontrollers

UDE - Universal Debug Engine - is a flexible debug and test platform for multi-core debugging of the Texas Instruments AM243x Microcontrollers.

UDE Key Features for AM243x

Multicore debugging
- In one common debugger environment
- Synchronized run-control
- Multicore breakpoints
Core support
- Cortex-R
- Cortex-M
- Device Management Security Controller (DMSC), if debugging is not blocked
FLASH programming