There's no question that we're fans of the Arduino here at GeekDad; however, that doesn't mean we don't occasionally dabble with other micro-controllers. The Texas Instruments MSP430 Launchpad Kit is ...

Providing a comprehensive software ecosystem for simplified microcontroller development, Texas Instruments Incorporated announced the new MSP430Ware software and resource package. MSP430Ware offers a ...

The MSP430F563x and MSP430F663x devices range from $2 to $5 USD in 10K units. Production parts are immediately available. TI's broad portfolio of microcontrollers (MCUs) and software From general ...

Need a tiny web server? [Rob] over on the 43oh forums made an Ethernet booster pack for the very popular TI MSP430 microcontroller. If that’s not enough, [Rob] also put together an all-in-one solution ...

This morning Texas Instruments unveiled Launchpad, a development platform for their low-cost MSP430 line of microcontrollers. We’ve seen these chips before, most notably in the ez430 Chronos sports ...

Linux embedded development doesn't only mean embedding Linux in a product, it also means using Linux as a development platform for embedded microprocessors. The majority of computer processors are not ...

Versions of the Forth programming language compiler for ARM Cortex-M and TI MSP430 cores are available free of charge from MPE of Southampton. According to MPE, this has “lowered the entry cost to ...

Now available are 16 ultra-low-power MSP430 microcontrollers (MCUs) targeted at electricity and gas metering applications. These new MSP430F4xx devices are highly integrated solutions that can support ...

I recently conducted a tradeoff study (see Table 1) on several 16 and 32-bit low-power microprocessors for a handheld device in the biotech industry. There are four key areas of concern: power/current ...

Texas Instruments (TI) continues to extend its MSP430 FRAM-based microcontrollers (Fig. 1). Non-volatile FRAM is ideal for low-power applications because systems can power on and off quickly without ...

The new MCUs are also supported by TI's easy-to-use MSP430 tools, free software and broad third party support network, driving faster time-to-market across a broad range of cost sensitive applications ...