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Chapter 1 - MSP430 Development Hardware

The MSP430 contains several families, from the low cost Value family to the most advanced F6xx family. Each family is usually targeted at a set...

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Chapter 2 Getting Started With The MSP430

I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand. – Old Chinese Proverb This tutorial is heavy with practical...

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Chapter 3 Number Systems and Operations

Although we are used to the base 10 decimal system for everyday counting, computers operate using a different system that uses only two digits, 1...

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Chapter 4 Deeper Dive into the MSP430

Let’s go back to looking the First Project we created and ran in Chapter 2. #include <msp430.h> int i = 0; void main() { WDTCTL...

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Chapter 5 MSP430 General Purpose Input Output (GPIO)

GPIO stands for General Purpose Input Output and refers to the fact that the pins can support both output and input functionalities. Looking physically at...

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Chapter 6 MSP430 Clock System

Clocks are at the heart of synchronous digital systems and processors. CPUs require clocks to run to ensure the orderly fetching and execution of instructions....

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Chapter 7 MSP430 Interrupts and Low Power

Using interrupts makes your MSP430 respond faster and allows the CPU to spend more time processing, as well as take advantage of low power Basics...

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Chapter 8 MSP430 UART Peripheral

Physical Interface From a pinout perspective, UART signals only require one line for unidirectional communications, although two are typically used for bi-directional transmit and receive....

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Chapter 9 MSP430 SPI Peripheral

SPI is one of the most common interfaces in Embedded Systems and it is one of the most utilized in the MSP430. Although it requires...

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Introduction to Getting Started with MSP430

Preface Although there are many resources dedicated to teaching microcontrollers and the MSP430 in particular, we have always found that they failed to cover the...

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