Texas Instruments (TI) development overview / roadmap

[parthitce]

MCU's in TI can be broadly classified into,

• ARM - Cortex M0+, M4 and R
• C2000

Although MSP430, DSP is part, which isn't considered in this status matrix now (can be extended).

MSPM0				Arm Cortex-R (K3)
PERIPHERAL	MSPM0Cx	MSPM0Lx	MSPM0Gx	AM2x	Hercules
CPU
Clock Control
GPIO
Pincontrol
UART
I2C
SPI
DMA
Flash
Timers
CAN
Watchdog

Last update: 27.03.2025
Each will be allocated with following fields,

• Assignee
• Link to the PR
• Status

Introduction:
This RFC gives an overview of features and enhancements we plan to contribute for Texas Instruments SoC device. It is not intended to be a proper roadmap but it gives some information about our effort on having more support for Zephyr RTOS.

Problem description
Currently Texas Instruments support for various series like R5, M0, M4 and C2000 supports few peripherals, but the development status is scattered. But largely many peripheral blocks are not yet supported.

Proposed change:
The initial idea is to handle M0 and R series as part of the development plan. The main idea of this proposal/plan is the resultant of discussion with Texas Instruments (TI)'s MSPM0 effort here.

Note: I will add/edit more detailed version of the proposal to this issue with roadmap.

Upstream effort will be based on on-going efforts from https://github.com/linumiz/zephyr/tree/dev/ti/mspm0

[vaishnavachath]

@parthitce This list today is not representative of all the TI MCU devices supported in Zephyr and does not reflect the current status. We have devices in the Simplelink family, AM6xx .etc and some of the devices are already supported with TI/community developers actively working on them. If you want to show the actual development status on all the platforms I will recommend to create sub-issues for platform families (or atleast separate tables for each family) as some of them do not share IPs/markets/end-use cases.
Hercules devices are not part of K3 family as mentioned in above table, K3 R5 base support is already added (See AM67/AM64) and C2000 family support is not present upstream today as far as we are aware but the above description says it is supported with limited peripherals.
Since the issue claims as TI development roadmap/overview we would like to see it be representative of all the families (atleast the ones with some level of support today) and reflect the correct status, please let know if we shall edit it.
CC: @glneo

[glneo]

@vaishnavachath,
I agree, this needs to be broken out by family. We already have the platform labels split based on this, Simplelink, K3, and MSPM0. All three are very different products lines each with completely different teams working on these parts here inside TI. As such each will have different support and timelines.

I've built out such a support table for the K3 line internally which I would love to have a spot to share externally. As we start to see more external contributions it would be good to list out what is in the current roadmap and what is not, so folks can pick items to help on that are not already in the works inside TI, and vice versa.

@parthitce,
How about the Zephyr github project wiki? Seems to be rather underused at the moment, might be a good place for such a support planning table.

[sslupsky]

Probably want to add (at minimum) ADC, Interrupt Controller, Power Management, PWM and RTC to that list.