The MSP430™LaunchPad™ development kit now has USB. The MSP-EXP430F5529LP is an inexpensive and simple development kit for the MSP430F5529 USB microcontroller. It offers an easy way to start developing on the MSP430 MCU, with onboard emulation for programming and debugging as well as buttons and LEDs for a simple user interface.
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Rapid prototyping is simplified by the 40-pin BoosterPack™ plug-in module headers, which support a wide range of available BoosterPack plug-in modules. You can quickly add features like wireless connectivity, graphical displays, environmental sensing, and much more. You can either design your own BoosterPack plug-in module or choose among many already available from TI and third-party developers.
The MSP430F5529 16-bit MCU has 128KB of flash memory, 8KB of RAM, 25-MHz CPU speed, integrated USB, and many peripherals – plenty to get you started in your development.
Custom USB functionality can be quickly added using the free open-source USB tools and examples available in the MSP430 USB Developers Package. This includes the MSP430 USB Descriptor Tool, which quickly customizes any combination of USB interfaces and automatically generates your USB descriptors for those interfaces.
Free software development tools are also available: TI's Eclipse-based Code Composer Studio™ IDE (CCS) and IAR Embedded Workbench™ IDE (IAR), and the community-driven Energia open-source code editor. More information about the LaunchPad development kit including documentation and design files can be found on the tool page at www.ti.com/tool/msp-exp430f5529lp.
(1) MSP-EXP430F5529LP LaunchPad development kit
(1) USB cable with "micro" connectors
(1) Quick start guide
If you intend to write code for the F5529 LaunchPad development kit, you can complete the kit by downloading the MSP-EXP430F5529LP Hardware Design Files and the MSP-EXP430F5529LP Software Examples from the MSP-EXP430F5529LP tool page.
The F5529 LaunchPad development kit comes programmed with an out-of-box demonstration example. Let's get started!
This section only describes how to use the demo. More details about the F5529 LaunchPad development kit are given later.
The demo works on a Windows PC, Linux PC, or Mac. It requires that (at minimum) the power jumpers (3.3 V and 5 V) on the isolation jumper block be connected. These supply power to the target F5529 device. As shipped from TI, these jumpers are connected.