Blackhawk announced a low-cost entry level JTAG controller for use with Texas Instruments DSPs and microcontrollers and Code Composer Studio (CCStudio) integrated development environment (IDE). The USB100, an XDS100-class controller, is compatible with several of TI’s processors including the 32-bit TMS320C28x MCUs as well as the TMS320C54x, TMS320C55x and TMS320C674x DSPs. The USB100 is a XDS100-class emulator to offer a high-speed (480Mb/s) USB host interface. Additional features include 1.8/3.3 volt device I/O support, dual target connections (standard 2x7 TI and 2x10 cTI JTAG headers) and CCStudio v3.3 and v4 support.

The Blackhawk USB100 has two big advantages in that it uses a high-speed USB 2.0 port and includes both 14-pin and 20-pin JTAG header connections. This means that the USB100 will out-perform the slower USB 1.x devices and also eliminates the need to buy an adapter to interface to 20-pin cTI (compact TI) target hardware. The USB100 is available through a worldwide network of resellers. The price in Europe is 129 Euros for single units.