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MSP432 tools compared to Freescale

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Good morning!

First of all, we are just starting with MSP43x so please have some patience with us ;)

We want to plot an ADC value on a chart by using a MSP432. We had success by following the instructions by this guy based on watching a global variable, setting a graph window in CCS and making a Breakpoint to update all graphs :)

However, the refresh rate is surprisingly slow. We are debugging via USB (XDS).

Some time ago, I worked with some Freescale boards. It was an ARM0. They have a tool called FreeMaster which effectively does something similar to the TI Graph tool but the refresh rate is quite high.

So my question is twofold:

  1. Can speed the debug frequency in CCS when using USB? I guess not. Is this frequency much higher if employing an external debugger like Jlink? The option to sample faster in the graph tool does not seem to increase anything.
  2. Maybe the Freescale tool is based on sending the values through an interface and printing them in an external graph tool like Processing instead of a memory access through a debugger? While this could explain my "problem", I was expecting a tool integrated in CCS, as the one I previously described, would be faster.

Ok, let's see what the MSP43x guys here can think ok :) Do not hesitate to propose a fast method to plot ADC! :)

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