There's no question that we're fans of the Arduino here at GeekDad; however, that doesn't mean we don't occasionally dabble with other micro-controllers. The Texas Instruments MSP430 Launchpad Kit is ...
Houston, Tex. &#151 Targeting designers of portable, battery-powered applications, Texas Instruments has launched its new T2012 and the MSP-Mojo target boards for TI's eZ430 development tool. In a ...
Providing a comprehensive software ecosystem for simplified microcontroller development, Texas Instruments Incorporated announced the new MSP430Ware software and resource package. MSP430Ware offers a ...
It isn’t much trouble programming one of TI’s MSP430 chips, but outside of the official Flash Emulation Tool, TI doesn’t make programming one of these microcontrollers cheap. The most common way of ...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hvQUXcXlEg&w=470] Hot off the heels of his web server for the TI MSP430, [Rob] shared a MIDI booster pack for the MSP430 ...
Dubbed the Grace software platform, the graphical design tool allows users to generate C code that automatically configures the low-level register settings of the MCU’s peripherals including ...
Versions of the Forth programming language compiler for ARM Cortex-M and TI MSP430 cores are available free of charge from MPE of Southampton. According to MPE, this has “lowered the entry cost to ...
Now available are 16 ultra-low-power MSP430 microcontrollers (MCUs) targeted at electricity and gas metering applications. These new MSP430F4xx devices are highly integrated solutions that can support ...
Texas Instruments has announced the launch of a free visual plug-in, designed to enable developers to easily enable and configure ultra low power MSP430 microcontroller peripherals through a graphical ...
I recently conducted a tradeoff study (see Table 1) on several 16 and 32-bit low-power microprocessors for a handheld device in the biotech industry. There are four key areas of concern: power/current ...
Texas Instruments (TI) continues to extend its MSP430 FRAM-based microcontrollers (Fig. 1). Non-volatile FRAM is ideal for low-power applications because systems can power on and off quickly without ...