MSP430G2XXX DIP Target Board for MSP-Fet

I am not sure if you have purchased a target board and are looking for documentation or you are asking if you should buy the board that the person recommended. TI sells a variety of MSP430 target boards. The following link should be helpful. http://www.ti.com/ww/en/launchpad/launchpads-msp430.html#tabs You can also buy a experimenters board. http://www.ti.com/tool/msp-exp430f5529 or the http://www.ti.com/tool/msp-exp430f5438 .

If you purchased the MSP-EXP430G2 LaunchPad, then I think the link you are looking for is http://www.ti.com/tool/msp-exp430g2. Customers are always encouraged to read the Quick Start Guide first. The Quick Start Guide can be found in the link I just mentioned.

Your post made no sense at all.

I mean the board I put the Chip in to use with my MSP-FET programmer. I have Launchpads and they work and the code works but using windows is annoying and I want to use Linux. Hence why I brought the MSP-FET

The person recommended the MSP-FET but didn't say another board is required. When looking on the store I found none that are compatible with the DIP format.

Ryan,

Sorry if my post did not make sense. Hopefully I will assist better in this post.

Technically, now that you have the MSP-FET you don't need another board to flash your MSP430G2XXX DIP IC.I think you should read this link. It talks about how to reprogram all MSP430 ICs.

As I mentioned before you can use the  http://www.ti.com/tool/msp-exp430g2 board  in conjunction with your MSP-FET programmer to reflash your MSP430 DIP . Simply remove the jumpers connecting the Emulation portion of the board from the MSP430 DIP portion and connect your MSP-FET to MSP430 DIP portion headers. Hope this helps.  

Ricky,

Hi,

Thanks. I think I've connected it right now but have another issue happening. I also have a PCB milled out with the correct pull ups and downs to try after I get it working with the launch pad.

Hi,

I'm getting unknown device error now. I've wired the launchpad to the fet with the little (None) instructions you provided.

How do I use this programmer then? All I'm getting is error after error.

I've tried again using Windows and CCSV6. the wiring is:

MSP-FET Pin 2 to VCC on Jumpers

MSP-FET Pin 8 to Test on Jumpers

MSP-FET Pin 9 to Ground on bottom header (J6-3 I believe)

MSP-FET Pin 11 to Rest on Jumpers

(Jumpers are all on bottom side of the board.)

The chip powers up when plugged in. CCSV6 just produces the error Unknown Device.

FET-430Lite power on/off button works. Reset button does nothing and fails to read / program / verify or anything.

I would really like help. I know that this is designed for professional engineers but even at that there is no documentation for it at all! I used this chip from where TI market it heavily at Students to use and create products with (I'm only 18 and have learned most of my stuff from stuff like datasheets and tutorials but with none How do I learn how to use this?)

Thanks in advance -

Ryan Walmsley

What you are trying to do is reprogram your DIP IC using your MSP-FET emulator using the Spy-by-wire JTAG serial interface. If you look at this link you will notice that your MSP-FET emulator does support Spy-by-wire reprogramming. If you look at this link it talks about Spy-by-wire documentation. This link provides the datasheet for your MCU and shows that Spy-by-wire is supported on your MCU.

If you look at this link it talks about using “any programming tool that supports 2-wire Spy-by-Wire interface

Ok, I may be 18 and new to this but I'm not that stupid. 

I have had the MSP-FET connected to the Launchpad and on a breadboard to the chip. I am constantly getting unknown device. The program loaded on it blinks once it has been reset / powered on and when clicking program I get the error unknown device.

How can I make this more simpler to get some useful advice? 

I have even been trying to phone up to get support. All I keep getting told is to ask on here!

Ryan Walmsley said:

I got my MSP-FET today but when ordered found that I needed a target board for the chip

MSPs are in-circuit programmable. And so is the FET an in-circuit-programmer/debugger interface. It does not have a socket to put the MSP in for programming (there are production programmers for mass production that come with socket adaptors) It is meant to be plugged into the target circuit and program/debug the MSP while soldered on its final board.

Jens-Michael Gross said:

For the G series devices, you could have bought a LaunchPad. It doesn’t support other MSPs (the MSP-FET supports them all, and has even more features like adjustable supply voltage or energy metering), but it is cheap and provides some basic peripherals (pushbuttons, LEDs, crystal) for initial experiments.

All true, however:

Ryan Walmsley said:

[...] I have Launchpads and they work and the code works but using windows is annoying and I want to use Linux. Hence why I brought the MSP-FET

Yep. Also can't blow JTAG fuse and have it as easy to bulk Program with speed.

The new wiring works perfect. I'm guessing the test and rst pins on the 14 pin header are for debugging the FET? 

Plus works perfectly fine in Ubuntu now! No more having to use slow windows just to Program an MCU easily.

Robert, I had the thread in an open tab and forgot to reload before I answered. So I didn’t see this information.

Nevertheless, the fact remains that the MSP-FET is for in-circuit programming and debugging. And it is nowhere mentioned that it comes with target boards for the about 100 different packages the MSP family offers. And the DIL socket is the most rare socket of all. Almost all MSPs except a few are SMT, so it is blue-eyed to assume that the ‘one-for-all’ programmer will come with a socket for the least-used package type.

It’s a bit like going into a recommended restaurant and then complaining about the fact that they don’t have my favorite meal on the menu. (note: I said ‘a bit like’, not ‘exactly like’)

 However, Ryan, congratulations for finding a working solution (looking up the signals of programmer and existing target board and connecting them properly)