The Official MSP430 Blog

  • Interested in achieving extended battery life in portable measurement applications? Give our MSP430AFE2xx devices a try! We will make it a little easier... for the next two weeks you can purchase the MSP-TS430PW24 target board for only $30...
  • 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...
  • The MSP430 community is amazing! People around the world are doing great things with our MCUs and we think it is important to share those projects. So welcome to the May edition of Community Highlights! IR remote created by IPushKarov for his Nikon...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • In the past two weeks, Jennifer gave you a deeper view of our MSP430 LCD portfolio and introduced you to the applications and benefits of using these integrated devices in your application. Now, if you’re like me, you are ready to get started! ...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The BoosterPack Design Challenge inspired TI employees to help grow the MCU LaunchPad ecosystem. Check them out and help choose the winner on the Make the Switch Blog. Vote Today! While you’re there, don’t forget to read up on...
  • 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...