Other Parts Discussed in Thread: MSP-GANG, MSP430G2553
I'm participating in a project with a number of other people, and it requires frequent re-flashing of firmware in a G2231 processor. Everyone has had to buy a Launchpad to do the flashing. But I wondered if in a future version a small circuit board might be available that could be incoporated into the device and used for USB-to-SBW conversion to flash the chip. In other words, we would continue to use the TI command line flasher and USB drivers normally required for the Launchpad, but replace the Launchpad itself with a much simpler, smaller and cheaper circuit, which is useful only for flashing.
As an example of this kind of thing, I recently put together a kit that uses an STC microcontroller, and the only hardware needed to flash that chip via USB is a very small USB to UART interface board using the CP2102 chip, which was only $1.62 delivered from China. So I would be looking for something similar that does USB to 2-wire JTAG, and that would still work with the TI flashing software.
Is there such a thing that works with MPS430 parts?