MSP430

The Texas Instruments (TI) MSP430 family are 16-bit microcontrollers with low power consumption. Peripherals include a 12-bit analog to digital converter, real time clock, timers, asynchronous/synchronous serial interface (with SPI/I2C modes), and a DMA controller.

Development Tools

The GCC toolchain port for MSP430 homepage can be found at (http://mspgcc.sourceforge.net/). There is an associated Wiki at (http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/mspgcc/index.php?title=MSPGCC_Wiki).

Technical Data

Technical details and datasheets

• TI Product Folder MSP430F1611 (http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/msp430f1611.html)
  • MSP430x15x, MSP430x16x, MSP430x161x Datasheet (http://www.ti.com/lit/gpn/msp430f1611)
  • MSP430x15x, MSP430x16x Errata (http://www.ti.com/litv/pdf/slaz018b)
  • MSP430x1xx Family User's Guide (http://www.ti.com/litv/pdf/slau049f)

Where Used

The MSP430 microcontroller is used in the following devices

• TelosB