INSTRUCTION EXECUTION TIME IN MSP430

You need to know what you are doing before you can get any meaningful result.

You could put together a sequence of instructions to generate a waveform with two "edges" on an oscilloscope.  You then insert the instruction in question in that sequence. The increment of time between those two edges "before" and "after" you inserted the instruction is the execution time of that instruction.

You could also use one of the Timer/Counter on the chip instead of an oscilloscope in a similar way. In this case you are measuring the number of clock cycles to execute that instruction.

In both cases, you need to worry about pre-fetch (pipeline) and side effects of the instruction.

Hello,

I know two methods:

1.) calculate execution time by using CPU clock + instruction cycles + assembler instructions

This is a very time intensive method with a lot of computing and paperwork.

2.) same as old yellow cow recommended

If you have an oscilloscope you can do something like:

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Regards 

Marco