Its always been a dream to have made my own ECU from scratch and after having my ear to the ground on what's hot and what's not hardware wise I've opted to go for a TI TMS570 cpu.
There are plenty of "open" ECUs at the moment but none have really excited me as their hardware isn't really automotive grade or the dev kit is a high price tag or they are just buried in conflicting hardware designs.
anyway I'm miles away from starting a jimstim let alone an engine so on with the basics.
There it is, very pretty and I love that every pin is broken out on the edges, in a single row which should make breadboarding simple.
After following the online guides for setting up I've managed to play with the pre programmed firmware and get a blinky project to work.
There doesn't seem to be many online examples and its far more complex than the Arduino ide but I love how the debugging works, gone of the days of adding serial messages or leds for debugging!
More reading and playing around is needed I think, I may even look at RTOS options as its the same direction as OEM ECUs.
