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Suggestion for improving the Grace UI re port select bits

Grace developers:

Grace is great  for leading the neophyte MSP430 programmer through the plethora of fiddly settings necessary to get the MCU started in the right state.  Almost allows one to proceed without 13 fingers (do you have that many?) holding places in the device datasheet....

...except for the port select bits on the port register setup panels.  Then it wimps out and says: "See the device datasheet" for details.  This is precisely where it would be useful to have an informative popup on options for the pin.  Grace already knows some of this info, because you check for conflicting uses of the associated port pin (e.g., a popup that says "This port select bit was forced to 1 by the USCI_A0 setup."). As a minimum, you should have a live link to the section of the datasheet (which can be done with PDF docs) or a text hint: "See section 5.3.1" (easier if your datasheets have a standard outline).

TIA,

Mike

  • Hello Mike,

    Thank you very much for your feedback.

    The suggestions you presented are very valid. Indeed the idea is not to need the datasheet while configuring your device with Grace. In the next version there will be a message indicating that a certain pin is used by a certain peripheral.
    In general, when configuring your device, make sure that the I/Os are the last thing you configure. Usually the pins are being configured by the other peripheral views. So if you see any bit ticked in the Port Select Register, you shouldn't touch it.

    Regards,

    Michael

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