SLAU533D September 2013 – April 2017
The F5529 LaunchPad development kit provides two resonators on the target F5529:
The 32-kHz crystal allows for lower LPM3 sleep currents than do the other low-frequency clock sources. Therefore, the presence of the crystal allows the full range of low-power modes to be used.
USB operation on the MSP430F5529 requires a high-frequency reference clock for the USB PLL. To meet this need, the F5529 LaunchPad development kit has a 4-MHz ceramic resonator on the XT2 oscillator. This particular ceramic resonator operates within ±2500 ppm, which is important for USB operation. If the F5529 application needs a high-frequency precision clock for purposes other than USB, then this clock is available for this as well.
For information on how clocks are configured by the software examples, see Section 3.6.5.3.