5.1 Developing an Application

The integrated development environments (IDEs) shown in Section 3 offer support for the whole MSP430G2xx Value Line. The MSP-EXP430G2 LaunchPad development kit needs only a connection to the USB of the Host PC—there is no external hardware required. The power supply and the Spy-Bi-Wire JTAG signals TEST and RST must be connected with jumper J3 to allow the onboard emulation connection to the device. Now the preferred device can be plugged into the DIP target socket of the LaunchPad development kit (see Figure 2). Both PDIP14 and PDIP20 devices of the MSP430G2xx Value Line and the MSP430F20xx family can be inserted into the DIP socket aligned to pin 1. A complete list of supported devices can be found in Section 5.7.

The following example for Code Composer Studio shows how to download and debug the demo application described in Section 4.2.