SLAU647O July 2015 – April 2020
The eZ-FET and eZ-FET Lite are powerful onboard flash emulation debug probes for application development on MSP430 microcontrollers (see Figure 38). The eZ-FET and eZ-FET Lite onboard emulation are the successors of the legacy eZ430.
Both eZ-FETs provide a USB interface to program and debug the MSP430 MCUs in-system through the pin-saving Spy-Bi-Wire (2-wire JTAG) protocol. Furthermore, the USB interface can be used for backchannel UART communication.
Both development tools support development with all MSP430 MCUs. They are designed as onboard emulation that is available on several LaunchPad kits. (Only MSP430 MCUs that implement the SBW2 protocol are supported.)
Figure 39 and Figure 40 show revisions 1.4 and 2.0, respectively, of the eZ-FET.