Save your money
Review written by: HoHum From SF
The book is printed in huge font, thus when it first arrives it looks impressive, but on opening you realize that it could be fitted into a much smaller package. And dont forget the appendix of the 430 data sheet...
The content is woefully lacking, just above a very basic introduction.
Save your money and buy something else, when you do find a goof book on the Ti430 let me know, I'm still looking.
Good overview
Review written by: Kevin C. Dixon From
Good brief overview of working with the MSP, has important tips on programming the MSP430s with C, but its suggestions don't apply to all compilers.
OK for newbies, experienced folks shouldn't bother
Review written by: J. LaCoss From Los Angeles, CA USA
Not very much info you can't get from the device docs at TI.
Maybe good for undergraduate students...
Review written by: jrw From Orlando, FL
If you're an undergraduate student who is accustomed to reading "textbooks" rather than datasheets and user manuals, this book may be helpful. Otherwise, it is useless. As noted in other reviews, much of the information from this book may be found in free TI documents. I purchased this as a reference for use in an undergraduate design project, and even I found very little use for it. If you're new to microcontrollers, you are probably better off studying and learning how to read a datasheet and user manual than reading this book.
Poor doesn't start to discribe it.
Review written by: Roberto Toca From Mexico City, Mexico
Mr. Navy writes in the introduction: "This book is intended for the embedded engineer who is new to the field, and as an introduction and reference for those experienced with microcontroller development, but are new to the MSP340 family of devices." He should have written: "This book is intended for the people that can't read data sheets, preferring to read the data in a book format (and pay)."
There is nothing to learn from this book or very little if you are ignorant of electronics. Mr. Navy seems more like a microcontroller hobbyist with little formal knowledge.
I am rating it with one star because it is the minimum, I would have give it zero stars.