This Texas Instruments TIDA-00183 shows a high
density, high power digital output circuitry. It comes with full
protection and isolation for programmable logic controllers in factory
automation and control environments. Th BeagleBone-Black cape formfactor
allows easy evaluation of the used driver chips and the interoperation
with an MSP430 MCU for innovative protection schemes.
It
features are a high-density 8-channel, 24V high-side output, with one
A/channel unregulated (+20%) and a 3-A peak. It has a 4-wire SPI MCU
interface and has fast switching of inductive loads and LEDs to indicate
output state.