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MSP430F5529: Question regarding Compatibality of MSP430F5529, MSP432P401r, CC3100 boosterpack, BOOSTXL-K350QVG-S1 Kentec

Muhammad Khairul Ikhwan Khamis
Prodigy 140 points
Part Number: MSP430F5529
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: CC3100, CC31XXEMUBOOST, CC3200, CC3135, CC3120

Hello,

I need to buy MCU for my project which the goal is an IoT device which can act as an HTTP client. I need to confirm the compatibility and choose which MSP MCU to choose. Below is my concern:

1. I can see that MSP430F5529 need CC3100 to connect to WiFi. What about MSP432P401r, does it need CC3100 as well or it needs another variant?

2. If I am going to use MSP430 with CC3100 and Kentec boosterpack together, are they compatible to stack those boosterpack together? I can see that both boosterpack using SPI. Can they work at the same time? I understand that we can have multiple slaves in SPI. Do I need to configure something (eg: slave address or something else) to make it work together.

3. If I need CC3100, do I need to buy the CC31XXEMUBOOST as well?

I hope the question asked is clear. I don't want to repeat the same mistake before which I bought Kentec boosterpack to be used with CC3200 which is not directly compatible and I had painful process integrating it together. Now I need to buy new MCU since my CC3200 is fried unexpectedly while programming it. So, I decided to change into MSP MCU since it has vast community and a lot of resources online. Thank you in advance.

Best regards

Khairul

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    TI__Mastermind 27145 points

    Hi,

    We will look into it and get back to you ASAP. Please bear with us.

    Thanks,

    PM

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    TI__Mastermind 34850 points

    Muhammad,

    1. For the MSP432, I recommend you use the CC3120 or CC3135, since these are our newer devices that come with an SDK (software development kit) plugin that are always being updated/supported.

    2. Yes, it is possible. However, the chip select pins are the same, so there will be a conflict here. In the CC3100 SDK, there are MSP430F5529 examples that allow you to switch between the SPI and UART interface by using the SL_IF_TYPE_UART define in your compiler settings. Once you define that, the entire host driver will run on UART. This way, you can use SPI to communicate with the Kentec display.

    3. Please see this related thread: 

    BR,

    Seong

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