The Official MSP430 Blog

  • TI worked in conjunction with CircuitCo to design an affordable, easy-to-use and highly-integrated BoosterPack for MSP430 LaunchPad users! CircuitCo knocked it out of the park with this brand new BoosterPack, which has been dubbed the "Educational...
  • Today is a great day here at Texas Instruments! Why? It's 4/30! And to celebrate, MSP430™ MCUs will be offering limited quantities of the following tools for only 430 minutes , starting at 5:00am CDT (10am GMT/UTC). Below is a list of the tools...
  • Welcome to the MSP430 LCD Blog Series! Our team will take you on a three-part ride to learn what MSP430 MCUs have to offer for displaying all that cool data you guys are generating. We get a lot of questions about our LCD portfolio because there are so...
  • Photo credit: Sylvia Wright / UC Davis. There are more than 6 billion people on planet Earth and with cows fast approaching the 2 billion mark, there is a high probably, as silly and preposterous as it may seem, that a cow has ended up in someone’s...
  • Do you ever think about what other engineers are doing with their Chronos? I found myself wondering just that and scoured the web for the coolest applications out there. The eZ430-Chronos development tool has been available for quite a while...
  • The MSP430 Bootstrap Loader (BSL) is a small and easy-to-use program built into each MSP430 device and enables device firmware updates via UART or USB. For 5/6xx devices, the code for this is open source, and customizable in the device to enable other...
  • Last week , I wrote about our vast portfolio of MSP430 devices with integrated LCD and memory of up to 512kB Flash. Now let’s get down to the nitty gritty and talk about some applications where this technology is beneficial. There is a display...
  • If you're new to the MSP430 LaunchPad, check out the new Getting Started with the MSP430 LaunchPad book, now available @ Elsevier.com and amazon ! This book explores the world of microcontroller development through friendly lessons and progressively...
  • Interested in long battery life, but think the math required for your application is too much for the MSP430? Think again! MSPMATHLIB is a new and accelerated library of floating point, scalar math functions. If you need scalar math functions, but...
  • Have you ever hesitated to implement your ideas for fear of the long road ahead? Never again! The LaunchPad and BoosterPack ecosystem was a great place to start when implementing an idea in hardware, but until recently it was lacking a development environment...