Stellaris® MDL-BDC24 same as Jaguar??

[StevenB]

Yes - depending on which Jaguars you're talking about. The 2011 KOP checklist lists the MDL-BDC24 as the KOP Jaguar motor controller.

The Jag was originally made by a company called Luminary Micro using their Stellaris microcontroller. These are the "brown jags", part MDL-BDC. Luminary was bought by TI back in 2009, and an updated version of the controller was released. These are the "black jags", part MDL-BDC24.

I can't speak for the "modern" Jags distributed by VexPro, but I think they're essentially the same. TI (or Luminary Micro for that matter) never really wanted to be in the motor controller business, they just made the Jag because it was something neat to do with the Stellaris microcontroller. So manufacturing it got passed off to IFI within the last couple years.