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MSP430 microcontrollers

Best analog in the microcontroller industry, affordable for all

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      Our 16-bit MSP430™ microcontrollers (MCUs) provide affordable solutions for all applications. Our leadership in integrated precision analog enables designers to enhance system performance and lower system costs. Designers can find a cost-effective MCU within the broad MSP430 portfolio of over 2000 devices for virtually any need. Get started quickly and reduce time to market with our simplified tools, software, and best-in-class support.

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      General Purpose MCUs

      Lower system costs by selecting from our broad portfolio that offers a wide memory range and peripheral options.

      MCUs featuring simultaneous sampling ADCs

      Do you need simultaneous, high precision measurements?  Select devices with multiple 24-bit differential input Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs).

      MCUs featuring capacitive touch sensing 

      Tired of mechanical buttons? Replace conventional buttons, sliders and wheels, with reliable liquid resistant touch sensing solutions.

      MCUs with high-speed ADCs & ultrasonic front-end

      Take highly accurate and precise measurements without making physical contact for longer operational life.

      Find an MSP430™ MCU that best fits your design

      MSP430 microcontrollers design & development

      Accelerate your time to market by leveraging our ecosystem and tools to immediately start developing systems solutions. 

      Hardware

      Start evaluating our MSP430 MCU portfolio by leveraging a modular ecosystem that gives you flexibility to evaluate the MCUs, using the LaunchPad™ development kits, and application specific evaluation modules.  arrow-right

      Software

      Design applications faster with our hundreds of code examples, reference designs and more within MSP430ware arrow-right

      TI Developer Zone

      Everything you need to move forward to production is at your fingertips within TI Developer Zone. We are here to help you navigate the development process and accelerate your embedded system design. arrow-right

      Educational resources

      Learn through easy to use training modules that span on a wide range of topics and LaunchPad kits in the MSP430 Portfolio. arrow-right

      Partners

      Our partners are a worldwide community of respected, well-established companies offering products and services that complement our semiconductor device solutions.  arrow-right

      Design & development resources

      Development kit
      MSP430FR2355 LaunchPad™ development kit

      The MSP-EXP430FR2355 LaunchPad™ Development Kit is an easy-to-use evaluation module (EVM) based on the MSP430FR2355 Value Line microcontroller (MCU). It contains everything needed to start developing on the ultra-low-power MSP430FR2x Value Line MCU platform, including on-board debug probe for (...)

      Software development kit (SDK)
      MSP430 microcontroller software development kit resources

      MSP430-SDK is a collection of resources that help users to write effective code for MSP430 microcontrollers (MCUs). These resources support ALL MSP430 microcontrollers. As one user mentioned, “It’s essentially everything developers need to become MSP430 microcontroller experts!”

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      MSP Academy
      Quicken your development time with MSP430ware,  a tool for navigating the available resources that support MSP430 devices

      Make complex designs simple with MSP430

      Learn more about the MSP430™ portfolio

      Our family of MSP430 MCUs offers a broad and affordable portfolio of products to solve today’s increasing and diverse MCU design challenges. This includes flexible, integrated analog components, such as ADCs, DACs, and Op-amps; Integrated LCD controllers for displaying information; and devices with integrated USB2.0 for communicating with a PC or application updates.

      Save system cost and space by leveraging our integrated analog MCUs

      We know that you are looking for ways to make your board designs more efficient -- to decrease BOM costs, reduce the number of components and simplify your schematic and layout designs. Adding a microcontroller to handle housekeeping functions in your design could be a great way to do this.

      By using a small, low-cost microcontroller for simple housekeeping functions such as driving LEDs, I/O expansion, and more, you can cut down the number of discrete analog components needed in your design. 

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        Learn more about the cost savings of adding a housekeeping MCU
        Integrating multiple functions within a housekeeping MSP430 microcontroller
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        Getting started with the MSP Housekeeping MCUs Training Series
        Different housekeeping functions are covered throughout the series and we will walk you through how to get started in minutes!
        Accelerate designs in a wide range of power monitoring and energy measurement applications

        The Energy Measurement Design Center is a rapid development tool that uses MSP430i20xx and MSP430F67xx flash-based microcontrollers (MCUs). It includes a graphical user interface (GUI), documentation, software library and examples that can simplify development and accelerate in smart grid and building automation applications. Using the Design Center you can configure, calibrate, and view results without writing a single line of code.

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        MSP Academy – Ultrasonic Gas Meter Design and Testing
        The gas meter design and test process involves a series of iterative tests that are conducted in an order designed to minimize the amount of time spent in evaluating transducers and new tube designs.
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        Ultrasonic design center: One stop resource to develop ultrasonic sensing applications
        Your one stop resource to develop ultrasonic sensing applications using MSP430TM microcontrollers (MCUs) that includes tools, a graphical user interface (GUI), documentation, software libraries and application examples.
        Use an MCU for Ultrasonic Sensing

        The MSP430FR604x and MSP430FR504x SoC microcontroller families, offer a low-cost, single-chip solution with integrated ultrasonic sensing analog front end which is easy to use and flexible for developing various applications. Its unique waveform capturing technology with high speed ADC and cross correlation method enables high accuracy measurements with low power.

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          MSP Ultrasonic Sensing MCUs
          Explore design options that can benefit from an ultrasonic sensing front end for industrial and consumer applications
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          MSP Academy – Ultrasonic Gas Meter Design and Testing
          The gas meter design and test process involves a series of iterative tests that are conducted in an order designed to minimize the amount of time spent in evaluating transducers and new tube designs.
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          Ultrasonic design center: One stop resource to develop ultrasonic sensing applications
          Your one stop resource to develop ultrasonic sensing applications using MSP430TM microcontrollers (MCUs) that includes tools, a graphical user interface (GUI), documentation, software libraries and application examples.
          Develop your capacitive touch interface

          MSP430™ capacitive touch sensing MCUs feature CapTIvate™ technology offering the lowest power capacitive touch solutions. With support from 1 to 64 buttons, sliders, wheels and proximity with reliable performance in wet, dirty and greasy conditions as well as through metal, glass, plastic and other overlays, we have a capacitive touch solution for your MCU-based design.

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            CapTivate technology training
            This training series details the key features of MSP430 MCUs featuring CapTIvate technology, enabling you to get started on your next capacitive touch design.
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            CapTivate technology guide
            This technology guide  brings together a capacitive measurement technology, a design GUI, a capacitive touch software library, and a hardware development platform. 
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            CapTivatetm design center GUI for MSP430tm Capacitive sensing MCUs
            The CapTIvate™ Design Center GUI is a one-stop resource for everything related to CapTIvate capacitive sensing technology integrated on TI MSP430™ microcontrollers.

            Technical resources

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            TI Precision Labs - What is an MCU?
            Learn how to design with microcontrollers  through on-demand curriculum  to deepen the technical expertise of experienced engineers and accelerate the development of those early in their career.
            User guide
            User guide
            MSP430 MCUs Development Guide Book (Rev. A)
            This book serves many purposes – a resource and reference handbook, a getting started guide, a self-learning tool, a solution manual to find the answers to your questions or a guide book when you develop specific applications.
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            GUI composer gallery
            Accelerate your design process by viewing a wide range of example to help with development