I ordered the LaunchPad directly from TI. Price is $4.30, and shipping is free (in US, that is, don't know about elsewhere).
Jim Smith

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On Dec 6, 2011, at 4:35 AM, chang luke wrote:

> What's the price of this Launchpad populated with MSP430G2553? I've designed a forth assembler/compiler/decompiler+tinyForth which can play with it. It's fun and joyable.
>
> --- 11/12/6 (二)，Jim 寫道：
>
> 寄件者: Jim
> 主旨: [msp430] LaunchPad shipping with MSP430G2553
> 收件者: m...
> 日期: 2011年12月6日,二,下午3:40
>
>
>
> I ordered another LaunchPad from TI on Nov 29 and was pleasantly suprised when it arrived on Dec 2, populated with a 20-pin PDIP MSP430G2553, and a spare MSP430G2452. The G2553 has 16K FLASH, 512 Bytes SRAM, 2 16-bit timers, USCI_A (UART/IrDA/SPI), USCI_B(SPI/I2C), 8 Comparators, Temp Sensor, and 8-chan 10-bit SAR ADC. In other words, enough FLASH, RAM & peripherals to get into some fairly complex projects!
>
> I had bought a couple of LaunchPads, about a year ago, which came with the MSP430G2231/G2211 chips. These were very limiting in capability, so, as soon as I found out the G2553 was available, I ordered samples to populate both of the original LaunchPads. I have used them to play around with CCS and GRACE, learning to configure the peripherals and to develop sw algorithms and routines. This is directly compatible with and transferrable to a larger MSP430F2618, on which I am developing an application that is far beyond the capabilities of the LaunchPad.
>
> I just thought others might be interested in knowing that the new LaunchPads are shipping with much higher capacity chips!
>
> Jim Smith
>
>
>
>

Beginning Microcontrollers with the MSP430

I ordered the LaunchPad directly from TI. Price is $4.30, and shipping is free (in US, that is, don't know about elsewhere).
Jim Smith

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On Dec 6, 2011, at 4:23 AM, c...@yahoo.com wrote:

> Where did you order from? Digikey? Newark?
>
> Thanks
> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Jim"
> Sender: m...
> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:40:58
> To:
> Reply-To: m...
> Subject: [msp430] LaunchPad shipping with MSP430G2553
>
> I ordered another LaunchPad from TI on Nov 29 and was pleasantly suprised when it arrived on Dec 2, populated with a 20-pin PDIP MSP430G2553, and a spare MSP430G2452. The G2553 has 16K FLASH, 512 Bytes SRAM, 2 16-bit timers, USCI_A (UART/IrDA/SPI), USCI_B(SPI/I2C), 8 Comparators, Temp Sensor, and 8-chan 10-bit SAR ADC. In other words, enough FLASH, RAM & peripherals to get into some fairly complex projects!
>
> I had bought a couple of LaunchPads, about a year ago, which came with the MSP430G2231/G2211 chips. These were very limiting in capability, so, as soon as I found out the G2553 was available, I ordered samples to populate both of the original LaunchPads. I have used them to play around with CCS and GRACE, learning to configure the peripherals and to develop sw algorithms and routines. This is directly compatible with and transferrable to a larger MSP430F2618, on which I am developing an application that is far beyond the capabilities of the LaunchPad.
>
> I just thought others might be interested in knowing that the new LaunchPads are shipping with much higher capacity chips!
>
> Jim Smith
>

I requested samples of the MSP430G2553 chips, directly from TI, earlier this
year and was shipped two of them, free.

Jim Smith

From: m... [mailto:m...] On Behalf Of
Leon Heller
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 6:38 AM
To: m...
Subject: Re: [msp430] LaunchPad shipping with MSP430G2553

On 06/12/2011 07:40, Jim wrote:
> I ordered another LaunchPad from TI on Nov 29 and was pleasantly
> suprised when it arrived on Dec 2, populated with a 20-pin PDIP
> MSP430G2553, and a spare MSP430G2452. The G2553 has 16K FLASH, 512 Bytes
> SRAM, 2 16-bit timers, USCI_A (UART/IrDA/SPI), USCI_B(SPI/I2C), 8
> Comparators, Temp Sensor, and 8-chan 10-bit SAR ADC. In other words,
> enough FLASH, RAM & peripherals to get into some fairly complex projects!

Digi-Key has the chips in stock, but they aren't available from any UK
suppliers yet. I might order a couple of samples for my Launchpads.

Another interesting feature is the touch sensor inputs.

Leon
--
Leon Heller
G1HSM

On 06/12/2011 07:40, Jim wrote:
> I ordered another LaunchPad from TI on Nov 29 and was pleasantly
> suprised when it arrived on Dec 2, populated with a 20-pin PDIP
> MSP430G2553, and a spare MSP430G2452. The G2553 has 16K FLASH, 512 Bytes
> SRAM, 2 16-bit timers, USCI_A (UART/IrDA/SPI), USCI_B(SPI/I2C), 8
> Comparators, Temp Sensor, and 8-chan 10-bit SAR ADC. In other words,
> enough FLASH, RAM & peripherals to get into some fairly complex projects!

Digi-Key has the chips in stock, but they aren't available from any UK
suppliers yet. I might order a couple of samples for my Launchpads.

Another interesting feature is the touch sensor inputs.

Leon
--
Leon Heller
G1HSM

What's the price of this Launchpad populated with MSP430G2553? I've designed a forth assembler/compiler/decompiler+tinyForth which can play with it. It's fun and joyable.

--- 11/12/6 (二)，Jim 寫道：
寄件者: Jim
主旨: [msp430] LaunchPad shipping with MSP430G2553
收件者: m...
日期: 2011年12月6日,二,下午3:40

I ordered another LaunchPad from TI on Nov 29 and was pleasantly suprised when it arrived on Dec 2, populated with a 20-pin PDIP MSP430G2553, and a spare MSP430G2452. The G2553 has 16K FLASH, 512 Bytes SRAM, 2 16-bit timers, USCI_A (UART/IrDA/SPI), USCI_B(SPI/I2C), 8 Comparators, Temp Sensor, and 8-chan 10-bit SAR ADC. In other words, enough FLASH, RAM & peripherals to get into some fairly complex projects!

I had bought a couple of LaunchPads, about a year ago, which came with the MSP430G2231/G2211 chips. These were very limiting in capability, so, as soon as I found out the G2553 was available, I ordered samples to populate both of the original LaunchPads. I have used them to play around with CCS and GRACE, learning to configure the peripherals and to develop sw algorithms and routines. This is directly compatible with and transferrable to a larger MSP430F2618, on which I am developing an application that is far beyond the capabilities of the LaunchPad.

I just thought others might be interested in knowing that the new LaunchPads are shipping with much higher capacity chips!

Jim Smith

Where did you order from? Digikey? Newark?

Thanks
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Jim"
Sender: m...
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:40:58
To:
Reply-To: m...
Subject: [msp430] LaunchPad shipping with MSP430G2553

I ordered another LaunchPad from TI on Nov 29 and was pleasantly suprised when it arrived on Dec 2, populated with a 20-pin PDIP MSP430G2553, and a spare MSP430G2452. The G2553 has 16K FLASH, 512 Bytes SRAM, 2 16-bit timers, USCI_A (UART/IrDA/SPI), USCI_B(SPI/I2C), 8 Comparators, Temp Sensor, and 8-chan 10-bit SAR ADC. In other words, enough FLASH, RAM & peripherals to get into some fairly complex projects!

I had bought a couple of LaunchPads, about a year ago, which came with the MSP430G2231/G2211 chips. These were very limiting in capability, so, as soon as I found out the G2553 was available, I ordered samples to populate both of the original LaunchPads. I have used them to play around with CCS and GRACE, learning to configure the peripherals and to develop sw algorithms and routines. This is directly compatible with and transferrable to a larger MSP430F2618, on which I am developing an application that is far beyond the capabilities of the LaunchPad.

I just thought others might be interested in knowing that the new LaunchPads are shipping with much higher capacity chips!

Jim Smith

I ordered another LaunchPad from TI on Nov 29 and was pleasantly suprised when it arrived on Dec 2, populated with a 20-pin PDIP MSP430G2553, and a spare MSP430G2452. The G2553 has 16K FLASH, 512 Bytes SRAM, 2 16-bit timers, USCI_A (UART/IrDA/SPI), USCI_B(SPI/I2C), 8 Comparators, Temp Sensor, and 8-chan 10-bit SAR ADC. In other words, enough FLASH, RAM & peripherals to get into some fairly complex projects!

I had bought a couple of LaunchPads, about a year ago, which came with the MSP430G2231/G2211 chips. These were very limiting in capability, so, as soon as I found out the G2553 was available, I ordered samples to populate both of the original LaunchPads. I have used them to play around with CCS and GRACE, learning to configure the peripherals and to develop sw algorithms and routines. This is directly compatible with and transferrable to a larger MSP430F2618, on which I am developing an application that is far beyond the capabilities of the LaunchPad.

I just thought others might be interested in knowing that the new LaunchPads are shipping with much higher capacity chips!

Jim Smith