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MSP430-3P-ENFOR-LPP010840-EVM - is it real?

Andy Neil
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http://www.ti.com/tool/msp430-3p-enfor-lpp010840-evm says its status is ACTIVE - but no other information at all.

A search for the part number on the TI site give only the above page.

It directs tyou to the Enfora site, but a search there gives  no hits at all!

Is this a real, documented, orderable product?

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    Andy Neil said:
    It directs tyou to the Enfora site, but a search there gives  no hits at all!

    Why don't you just follow teh 'products' link on top of the Enfora homepage? teh Ti product page tell the name: Enabler III. Follow the links and you'll eventually find the info.

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    That's just the bare Enfora GSM module - it's not an "MSP430-3P-ENFOR-LPP010840-EVM"

    What I want is details of the "MSP430-3P-ENFOR-LPP010840-EVM" (if it actually exists) - which, from the very sketchy description on the TI page, I presume consists of an MSP430 and an Enabler-III on some kind of development board/platform...

     

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    Andy Neil said:
    That's just the bare Enfora GSM module - it's not an "MSP430-3P-ENFOR-LPP010840-EVM"

    Hmmm, by reading the description on the TI product page, i doesn't describe more than this bare Enfora GSM module. Maybe it is actually driven by an MSP430?

    Perhaps Ti has just created a cross-link to this 3rd party product and it is no self-contained separate TI evaluation product at all. Would be unusual, but the name is unusual too and doesn't fit the normal eval board nomenclature.
    The 'ordering info' link to the Enfora website supports this assumption.

    Or the web page isn't complete yet and has gone online by accident.

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    Jens-Michael Gross said:
    Maybe it is actually driven by an MSP430?

    Enfora do (or did) use the TI GSM chipset - but that is certainly not based on an MSP430!!

    It would be an innovative idea to have a small micro like an MSP430 as a "coprocessor" within the GSM module. But that would be a highly unusual feature for a GSM module - certainly something that Enfora would mention.

    Jens-Michael Gross said:
    Perhaps Ti has just created a cross-link to this 3rd party product and it is no self-contained separate TI evaluation product at all.

    It does rather look that way; hence my question, "is it real?"

    But the -EVM suffix does suggest an "evaluation module" of some sort...

     

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    Andy Neil said:
    But the -EVM suffix does suggest an "evaluation module" of some sort...

    It's also posible that Enfora has announced (to TI) an eval board and jsut hasn't updated their site. And TI created a 'forwarding' product page that actually forwards into the void.

    Yes, EVM seems to indicate an evaluation board. However, the product description on the TI page doesn't tell anything that's not found in the standard GSM module.

    I agree that this leaves some questions unanswered.

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    Jens-Michael Gross said:
    product description on the TI page doesn't tell anything that's not found in the standard GSM module.

    True.

    But it is filed under "MSP430™16-bit Ultra-Low Power MCUs" on the TI site, and does have MSP430 as a prefix in the name...

    Jens-Michael Gross said:
    this leaves some questions unanswered

    I was rather hoping that someone from TI might be able to fill-in at least some of the gaps...

     

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    Jens-Michael Gross said:
    TI created a 'forwarding' product page that actually forwards into the void

    No - the TI page just links to the Enfora home page  http://www.enfora.com/

    The 'contact tech support' link on the TI page is broken - so it looks like the entire thing is dead?

     

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    Andy Neil said:
    No - the TI page just links to the Enfora home page  http://www.enfora.com/

    Well, the void is a place where you're lost. It's not necessarily a place that doesn't exist at all (even though it makes no difference for those who enter and those who remain)

    Never played 'the void'? :)

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