MSP430™ MCU design & development
Explore design options and find resources for MSP430 microcontrollers (MCUs) to help make it easier for you to get to market.
Hardware development
Start evaluating our MSP430 MCU portfolio by leveraging a modular ecosystem that gives you flexibility to evaluate the MCUs, using the LaunchPad™ development kits, BoosterPack™ plug-in modules, and application specific evaluation modules (EVM). LaunchPad kits and BoosterPacks are your main evaluation platform for most MSP430 developments.
Hardware development tools
LaunchPad development kits
MSP430FR2433 LaunchPad™ 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 (...)
MSP430FR6989 LaunchPad™ development kit
The MSP-EXP430FR6989 LaunchPad Development Kit is an easy-to-use Evaluation Module (EVM) for the MSP40FR6989 microcontroller (MCU). It contains everything needed to start developing on the ultra-low-power MSP430FRx FRAM microcontroller platform, including on-board emulation for programming, (...)
MSP430F5529 LaunchPad™ development kit for USB
MSP430FR2311 LaunchPad™ development kit
The MSP-EXP430FR2311 LaunchPad™ development kit is an easy-to-use microcontroller development board for MSP430FR2000, MSP430FR21xx and MSP430FR23xx MCUs. It contains everything needed to start developing quickly including on-board emulation for programming, debugging and energy measurements. The (...)
MSP430FR4133 LaunchPad™ development kit
MSP430FR5969 LaunchPad™ development kit
The MSP-EXP430FR5969 LaunchPad Development Kit is an easy-to-use microcontroller development board for the MSP430FR5969 MCU. It contains everything needed to start developing quickly on the MSP430FRxx FRAM platform, including on-board emulation for programming, debugging and Energy Measurements. (...)
MSP430FR2476 LaunchPad™ development kit
The LP-MSP430FR2476 LaunchPad™ development kit is an easy-to-use evaluation module (EVM) based on the MSP430FR2476 value line sensing microcontroller (MCU). It contains everything needed to start developing on the ultra-low-power MSP430FR2x value line sensing MCU platform, including on-board (...)
MSP430FR5994 LaunchPad™ development kit
The MSP-EXP430FR5994 LaunchPad™ Development Kit is an easy-to-use evaluation module (EVM) for the MSP430FR5994 microcontroller (MCU). It contains everything needed to start developing on the ultra-low-power MSP430FR5x FRAM microcontroller platform, including on-board debug probe for programming, (...)
MSP430™ LaunchPad™ development kit for value line MCU
BoosterPack plug-in modules
Audio Signal Processing BoosterPack Plug-In Module
When plugged into a LaunchPad™ Development Kit, the BOOSTXL-AUDIO Audio BoosterPack™ Plug-in Module can capture audio input from a microphone and output audio through an on-board speaker. Headphone input and output is also supported. This audio input/output stream lets developers (...)
MSP430 CapTIvate™ MCU touch keypad BoosterPack plug-in module
The BOOSTXL-CAPKEYPAD is an easy-to-use evaluation module (EVM) for the MSP430FR2522 capacitive touch sensing microcontroller (MCU) with CapTIvate™ technology. The BOOSTXL-CAPKEYPAD can be used in three different ways - with a LaunchPad™ development kit, with the CapTIvate (...)
Educational BoosterPack MKII
The Educational BoosterPack MKII offers a high level of integration for developers to quickly prototype complete solutions. Various analog and digital inputs/outputs are at your disposal including an analog joystick, environmental and motion sensors, RGB LED, microphone, buzzer, color LCD display, (...)
Fuel Tank MKII Battery BoosterPack Plug-In Module
The Fuel Tank MKII BoosterPack™ plug-in module is the next generation design of the original Fuel Tank BoosterPack module. It includes next-generation TI battery monitoring ICs and other new features to make it easier to use. It allows TI LaunchPad™ development kits to be powered from (...)
Infrared (IR) BoosterPack Plug-in Module
The BOOST-IR BoosterPack™ Plug-in Module can be plugged into a LaunchPad™ Development Kit for simple integration of Infrared (IR) transceiver functionality. Users can start developing remote control applications with the on-board keypad, IR LED transmitter, and IR receiver + demodulator.
On-chip IR (...)
Application specific EVMs
Capacitive touch MSP430FR2676 MCU board
The MSP430FR2676 CapTIvate™ touch MCU board (CAPTIVATE-FR2676) is a simple evaluation board for evaluating capacitive touch and proximity sensors through the use of plug-in sensor boards (sold separately).
The MCU board has a 20-pin female debug connector to debug the on-board MSP430FR2676 (...)
Capacitive touch MSP430FR2633 MCU board
MSP430FR6047 ultrasonic sensing evaluation module
The EVM430-FR6047 evaluation kit is a development platform to evaluate the performance of the MSP430FR6047 MCUs for ultrasonic sensing applications (e.g. smart water meters). The MSP430FR6047 MCU is an ultra-low-power device with an integrated ultrasonic sensing analog front end (USS) for high (...)
MSP430FR6043 ultrasonic sensing evaluation module
MSP430I240 evaluation board for sub metering
This embedded metering (sub-meter/e-meter) EVM is designed based on the MSP430i2040. The EVM can be connected to the mains (or to DC) and the load directly. The EVM measures the electrical parameters of the load and the result of measurement can be read from the UART port. This EVM provided with (...)
EVM430-F6736 - MSP430F6736 EVM for Metering
Polyphase electric meter with MSP430F67641 SoC
This EVM implements a complete smart meter design using the MSP430F67641 polyphase metering System on Chip. The design meets all requirements for ANSI/IEC Class 0.5 accuracy. The F67641 SoC features 128KB of on-chip flash plus a 320-segment LCD controller for a single-chip solution to low-cost (...)
EVM430-F6779 - 3 Phase Electronic Watt-Hour EVM for Metering
This EVM430-F6779 is a three-phase electricity meter evaluation module based on the MSP430F6779 device. The E-meter has inputs for three voltages and three currents, as well as an additional connection to setup anti-tampering. It allows a customer to test the new (...)
Software
Our wide range of software and development tools (royalty and license free) provide access to all components needed for the evaluation and production of your embedded system.
The MSP430Ware software is a collection of design resources for developing with MSP430 MCUs including a wide selection of highly abstracted software libraries. The software is available as a component of Code Composer Studio™ IDE desktop and cloud versions, or as a standalone package.
The CapTIvate™ MCU design center GUI is a one-stop resource for everything related to CapTIvate capacitive sensing technology integrated on MSP430 microcontrollers. It includes tools, documentation and software examples that can simplify and accelerate capacitive touch designs.
The energy measurement design center is a rapid development tool that enables energy measurement using a graphical user interface (GUI), documentation, software library and examples that can simplify development and accelerate designs in a wide range applications.
The ultrasonic design center is a one-stop resource to develop ultrasonic sensing applications. Our resource includes tools, a GUI, documentation, software libraries and application examples.
The USB Developers Package for MSP430 is a software package containing all necessary source code and sample applications required for developing a USB-based MSP430 project. The package only supports MSP430 USB devices.
TI Developer Zone
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Our comprehensive ecosystem can help simplify your design process. Find resources and explore options for MSP430™ microcontrollers to make it easier for you to get to market faster.
Develop, debug and analyze code on your desktop or in the cloud
The Code Composer Studio™ integrated development environment (IDE) for TI microcontrollers and processors comprises a suite of tools to develop and debug embedded applications. You can download Code Composer Studio software on Windows, Linux or macOS desktops, or access it in the cloud from the TI Developer Zone.
Code Composer Studio software:
- Includes an optimizing C/C++ compiler, source-code editor, project build environment, debugger, profiler and many other features.
- Provides a single user interface for each step of the application development flow.
- Has no license fee.
Create custom HTML applications that interact with software running on your embedded device.
A wide variety of web components are provided that enable the control of the target device and visualization of data.
Programming tools
MSP MCU Programmer and Debugger
The MSP-FET is a powerful emulation development tool – often called a debug probe – which allows users to quickly begin development on MSP low-power microcontrollers (MCU).
It supports programming and real-time debugging over both JTAG and SBW interfaces. Furthermore, the MSP-FET also provides a (...)
MSP-GANG production programmer
The MSP Gang Programmer (MSP-GANG) is a MSPM0/MSP430™/MSP432™ device programmer that can program up to eight identical MSPM0/MSP430/MSP432 Flash or FRAM devices at the same time. It connects to a host PC using a standard RS-232 or USB connection and provides flexible (...)
Bootloader (BSL) for MSP low-power microcontrollers
The bootloader (BSL) on MSP430™ microcontrollers (MCUs) lets users communicate with embedded memory in the MSP MCUs during the prototyping phase, final production, and in service. This is done through standard interfaces such as UART, I2C, SPI, and USB. Both the programmable memory (Flash/FRAM) and (...)
UniFlash flash programming tool
UniFlash is a software tool for programming on-chip flash on TI microcontrollers and wireless connectivity devices and on-board flash for TI processors. UniFlash provides both graphical and command-line interfaces.
UniFlash can be run from the cloud on the TI Developer Zone or downloaded and used (...)