Partner Profile: Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Inc.(TI) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, tests and sells analog and embedded processing chips in markets that include industrial, automotive, personal electronics, communications equipment and enterprise systems.
VLAB Works has partnered with TI to deliver highly valued simulation environments for TI devices.

VLAB Works™ and TI®

A VLAB Works Virtual EVM (V-EVM) is an equivalent of the TI EVM. Combining a VLAB model representing the EVM hardware able to run a TI Software Development Kit (SDK) in VLAB Express gives users a virtual alternative. TI SDKs against which the V-EVMs are validated, are included in the V-EVM bundle to ensure the product is usable out of the box. Alternatively TI SDKs and related resources can be downloaded directly from ti.com.

For customers with larger systems, V-EVMs can be used as building blocks. One such example combines V-EVM with models of ECU ASIC components to create Virtual ECUs, which can be used for software development, fault testing, large scale continuous regression testing and more. All of this in an environment that works with industry standard tools such as Lauterbach debuggers, and simulation through Simulink, Vector CANoe, Dspace and others.

VLAB Virtual Platforms:

J721E V-EVM: Virtual Platform for TI J721E EVM – DRA829J, DRA829V, TDA4VM
J7200 V-EVM: Virtual Platform for TI J7200 EVM – DRA821U, DRA821A
J784S4 V-EVM: Virtual Platform for TI J784S4X EVM – TDA4VH, AM69A
AM64x V-EVM: Virtual Platform for TI AM64x EVM – AM6411, AM6412, AM6421, AM6441, AM6442
AM62x V-EVM: Virtual Platform for TI AM62x SK EVM – AM623, AM625
AM62A V-EVM: Virtual Platform for TI AM62A SK EVM – AM62A3, AM62A7

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Introducing the VLAB AM62x Virtual Platform

by Glen Olafsen | June 30, 2022 | Texas Instruments, Virtual Platforms | 0 Comments

In early June 2022, TI released two new Sitara devices, the AM623 and AM625, designed as low-power & low-cost application processors that enable a broad range of mainline Linux® and Android™ applications in the industrial segment. As part of our continuing...

The 80 / 20 rule and virtualization

by Glen Olafsen | March 31, 2022 | Virtual Platforms, VLAB | 0 Comments

How much target hardware does your embedded application software actually use? VLAB VDMs are bringing new thinking to an age old problem.

The VLAB Sitara AM64x V-EVM Available Now

by Glen Olafsen | March 1, 2022 | Texas Instruments, VLAB | 0 Comments

The announcement of a new product would normally come with a title of 'Now Available'. Arguably 'Available Now' is more important, with ongoing global shortages of semiconductors impacting supplies of development and test hardware! The ASTC Virtual EVM for TI Sitara...

Do software engineers build tools for software engineers?

by Ross Dickson | September 27, 2021 | Opinion | 0 Comments

This may seem like a cross between a circular question and a particularly awkward attempt at a Zen kaon. Actually it is intended as a serious question about product design. In many industries that we don’t work in but periodically have to interact with it seems the...

Do you need ‘Cycle Accurate’?

by Glen Olafsen | July 21, 2021 | VLAB | 0 Comments

For those scratching your head, possibly because you are new to simulation, here is a quick explanation. In digital simulation there are multiple ways of simulating embedded hardware, each with its pros and cons. Perhaps the simplest explanation, Cycle Accurate...

Finding perspective on the semiconductor shortage

by Ross Dickson | June 7, 2021 | Opinion | 0 Comments

When you read the recent headlines on global chip shortages, does R.E.M. or David Bowie spring to mind? On one hand it could be The End of the World as we Know it. Or maybe it's just another round of Changes. No this is not a test to see when you started listening to...

Unreal Simulation …. Hero or Villain!

by Ross Dickson | May 13, 2021 | VLAB | 0 Comments

Explaining new concepts using the things that we find around us is nothing new. In a previous blog, the connection between changes in sport called for challenging assumptions and trying new types of testing. Today we are going to use another ... Comic Books! Having...

VLAB extends it’s TI Jacinto7 portfolio

by Glen Olafsen | May 4, 2021 | Texas Instruments | 0 Comments

VLABWorks has added to its suite of ready to go and easy to use Virtual EVMs, with the VLAB Jacinto7 J7200 Virtual EVM now available for users. Following on from the successful launch of the VLAB Jacinto7 Virtual EVM, users can now develop software targeted at the TI...

Scripted vs Interactive

by Glen Olafsen | March 31, 2021 | Opinion | 0 Comments

An epic struggle ... or complementary?While the title may suggest an epic struggle, a competition, an either / or proposition, in the field of embedded software debug and test, Scripted and Interactive should be seen as complementary. Like the well worn adage, there...

Challenge your assumptions

by Glen Olafsen | March 24, 2021 | Opinion | 0 Comments

Have you ever noticed that sometimes the source of inspiration or clarity can come from the most unlikely source? Recently I was listening to a talk back sports radio show where one of the hosts was asked the question, “What has been the biggest change to Football in...