I just picked up a demo board from TI. Its been around awhile, but I can not seem to hunt sown the schematics. Its the round PCB with a...

I just picked up a demo board from TI. Its been around awhile, but I can not seem to hunt sown the schematics. Its the round PCB with a MSP430FG439 processor and an LCD display. The silkscreen says: "MSP430 Watch and Altimeter". Does anyone know where to find the schematic for this board ? Thanks Donald

Hi all, I'm currently working in an application that requires the MCU to g into deep sleep (LPM4) and wake up and process data on UART receive,...

Hi all, I'm currently working in an application that requires the MCU to g into deep sleep (LPM4) and wake up and process data on UART receive, an then go back to LPM4. What is the right way to do this? I tried doing th following as TI's guide Rev. E. suggests, but this crashes the MCU. tried to debug the code but I just can't find where the problem is. Th serial data is received using IR, i...

I am considering using ST7 part with USB on-board. I have not used ST7 before, but have worked with PIC, AVR & MSP430. * How good are the...

I am considering using ST7 part with USB on-board. I have not used ST7 before, but have worked with PIC, AVR & MSP430. * How good are the ST7 tools? It looks like Cosmic offers a 4K limited version of their C-compiler. Is the Cosmic compiler/IDE (IDEA) any good? * How are ST7 parts to use? Any bizarre or strange problems? Thanks you. HW.

I'm an experienced C/C++ programmer, but very new to Embedded programming. I've bought the TI Flash developers kits that include the IAR...

I'm an experienced C/C++ programmer, but very new to Embedded programming. I've bought the TI Flash developers kits that include the IAR compiler. I have some existing msp430gcc code, but there are some differences - particularly in how interrupts are declared. The issues I need to resolve: 1) some of my interrupt routines are declared as "wakeup". It's unclear to me how to handle th...

Having an IDE to work with is great, but is IAR worth the bucks? 1 - will it save that much time? Including learning time - especially...

Having an IDE to work with is great, but is IAR worth the bucks? 1 - will it save that much time? Including learning time - especially for someone used to IDEs like Visual Studio? 2 - are there opportunities with the MSP430 to earn back the cost of IAR? 3 - are there any good IDE front ends for mspgcc? (and the debugger) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------...

Hello everyone, I am facing the following situation: I have a microcontroller (e.g. Atmel ATmega 128 or TI MSP430) connected via SPI to a...

Hello everyone, I am facing the following situation: I have a microcontroller (e.g. Atmel ATmega 128 or TI MSP430) connected via SPI to a flash memory chip (e.g. Atmel AT45DB014B or ST M25P80). I'd very much like to enable a second microcontroller to access the flash memory. The central question in this regard is: Can I add this second microcontroller to the bus without changing the soft...

We are working on a small MSP430F149 project and are having a heap of grief getting the basic hardware going. We continually get inconsistent...

We are working on a small MSP430F149 project and are having a heap of grief getting the basic hardware going. We continually get inconsistent results when attempting to connect and download to the msp430. Initially the JTAG will not connect but this problem appeared to rectify itself. It then had trouble writing to memory at address 0x1100 - the start of the program flash. Reseating the ms...

Hi you all, I'm relatively new to this list. From time to time I browse through the newsgroup, and sometimes it happens to me to get some...

Hi you all, I'm relatively new to this list. From time to time I browse through the newsgroup, and sometimes it happens to me to get some valuable info. But this is the first time I insert a post, and, not surprisingly, it is a request of help. I've developed the software for a target board with a TI MSP430F1611 MCU, that's used for data acquisition, and that has already been deployed on fi...

Hi everybody. My problem is when i try to mixing C++ and assembler modules. I ca mixing C and assembler modules thank to the document "Mixing...

Hi everybody. My problem is when i try to mixing C++ and assembler modules. I ca mixing C and assembler modules thank to the document "Mixing C and Assemble with the MSP430" but this only work for C. I am working with the IDE IAR Embedded Workbench for MSP430, but in this environment the option "list" "generate a output file assembler source is disable, however i can't generate a skel...

Take pity - I'm a newbie at embedded programming I've got a prototype with a MSP430 on a header board. I'm using the IAR compiler and the TI...

Take pity - I'm a newbie at embedded programming I've got a prototype with a MSP430 on a header board. I'm using the IAR compiler and the TI "Flash Emulation Tool". In Debug, the C-Spy debugger downloads a binary file to the MSP430 chip. Compiler Release mode, however, builds a hex/Text file which C-Spy does not handle. How do I download the release program to the MSP430 chip? (or do...

Greetings. I have been using msp430-gdb on Linux via the Flash Emulation Tool and gdbproxy. It works fine with the MSP430F149 member of the...

Greetings. I have been using msp430-gdb on Linux via the Flash Emulation Tool and gdbproxy. It works fine with the MSP430F149 member of the processor family, but if I use the MSP430F169 chip, gdbproxy doesn't recognize the type and gives the following message. info: msp430: Target device is a 'Device unknown' (type 0) notice: msp430-gdbproxy: waiting on TCP port 2000gdbproxy ...

http://microcontroller.com/news/ti_msp430_50newdevices.asp Over 50 new devices, including cool new features such as 20-bit addressing and run...

http://microcontroller.com/news/ti_msp430_50newdevices.asp Over 50 new devices, including cool new features such as 20-bit addressing and run current of only 200 ?A/MIPS. - Bill Giovino Executive Editor http://Microcontroller.com

The following compiles fine in Visual Studio and is something that I do often: int a = 0; int b = 0; int* ptrs[2]; ptrs[0] =...

The following compiles fine in Visual Studio and is something that I do often: int a = 0; int b = 0; int* ptrs[2]; ptrs[0] = &a; ptrs[1] = &b; This same code complains that "the size of an array must be greater than zero" in IAR. Anyone know what I should do? Is there a switch somewhere that I need to flip in the options? Is this "bad" code, seems fine and lega

I'm running theIAR kickstart samples. I can compile, build & download to the target ok (MSP430F1121) but can't single step execution. The...

I'm running theIAR kickstart samples. I can compile, build & download to the target ok (MSP430F1121) but can't single step execution. The buttons & menu options for STEP / STEP INTO / GO OUT & AUTOSTEP are greyed out (inactive) as are the same functions when accessed via the pulldown menus. The GO execute control works fine. Any ideas what's going on is it a configuration issue???? ...

I hope someone with some experience with the AD421 can point us forward with a problem we have. We've got an MSP430F149 driving an AD421 16...

I hope someone with some experience with the AD421 can point us forward with a problem we have. We've got an MSP430F149 driving an AD421 16 bit DAC as a 4/20mA current loop driver. The AD421 is isolated using H11L1M optocouplers, the F149 is battery powered and completely isolated from the AD421, we have used the circuit recommended in the data sheet. The problem is that the output cur...

I'm looking for a mid-capacity static RAM part that I can use with a TI MSP430 series MCU using a few interface lines and serial transfers. I am...

I'm looking for a mid-capacity static RAM part that I can use with a TI MSP430 series MCU using a few interface lines and serial transfers. I am finding a few serial-interface static RAMs (such as the Philips part) but those I'm finding are very small capacity for my application - 256 bytes or less. I need something in the 2 to 8K byte range, but static RAMs in that range are parallel (addres...

Hello All, TI's web site is, for the most part, pretty good. However, I find their DSP section shallow and horrible. Lots of glitz and fluff,...

Hello All, TI's web site is, for the most part, pretty good. However, I find their DSP section shallow and horrible. Lots of glitz and fluff, not nearly as much "meat" as on their MSP430 section. Worst is when the site starts some stupid applet that brings it to a crawl. IOW, quite useless to me. What I am looking for: Info about what size (and cost...) DSP can do how much in terms o...

Hi everybody. I am working with a development platform based in the msp430, and I am looking for different programming tools. I tried the JTAG but...

Hi everybody. I am working with a development platform based in the msp430, and I am looking for different programming tools. I tried the JTAG but this is too big. it takes up to 14 pins of space. So I hope that somebody can make a suggestion about other solutions, or other version of JTAG that take up less space.

Hi everybody. I am working with a development platform based in the msp430, and I am looking for different programming tools. I tried the JTAG but...

Hi everybody. I am working with a development platform based in the msp430, and I am looking for different programming tools. I tried the JTAG but this is too big. it takes up to 14 pins of space. So I hope that somebody can make a suggestion about other solutions, or other version of JTAG that take up less space.

We want to make a portable device for reading some text. It is made for ourselves, and as a practice of course. So we want get a low cost...

We want to make a portable device for reading some text. It is made for ourselves, and as a practice of course. So we want get a low cost on hardware. Some one suggest that MSP430 should work fine, but i don't know whether it can afford the loads. It seems that lacking of support free os for MSP430 is another problem. Is there any better choice?Any help would be appreciated.