Well, in my university Arduino is known much more than MSP430.
I´ve worked with various microcontrollers, pic, arm and MSP430, which is the one i´m in love with right now, and as a don´t have any experience with arduino i don´t know how to defend MSP430 against Arduino (or atmel finally) when talking with people.
With the very few things i know about AVR microcontrollers and Arduino platform i can think about some points that give the advantage to the MSP, for example:
- Msp430 offers several LPM.
- 16 bit architecture.
- Price per unit lower for the MSP.
And also, other points that come to my mind thinking in how the Arduino platform lets you to program for the microcontrollers:
- may the MSP430 c compilers let you to program more complex and more optimized code (in the way that for example you can control the main system clock with MSP430 and cant do it with arduino) in specific applications?
To sum up, i only beg for some wisdom here that can ilustrate me and tell me in clearly words why MSP430 is better than arduino for serious applications (if it is actually better).
thanks a lot!
Regards
PD: also i found SLAA205C.pdf, which is a benchmarking between several microcontrollers.