Learning About the Texas Instruments LaunchPad
The following presentation is from an August 14th, 2012 workshop. This
workshop steps through some very simple exercises introducing the Texas
Instruments LuanchPad, an MSP430 embedded development board.
MSP-EXP430G2 Board
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Introduction
Workshop Introduction
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The Introduction provides an
overview of the workshop and the supplies required for the exercises. We take a
quick look at the board and the processor on it.
Exercise One
Workshop Exercise One
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Exercise One connects the board to
your computer and runs the temperature demo which Texas Instruments has already
programmed into the processor.
Exercise Two
Workshop Exercise Two
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Exercise Two uses the IAR Embedded
Workbench application to view the source code for the temperature demo and
program the demo into the MSP430.
Exercise Three
Workshop Exercise Three
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For Exercise Three we write our own
application and program the MSP430. Our initial application will blink one of
the LEDs on the LaunchPad board.
Exercise Four
Workshop Exercise Four
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Exercise Four uses the code from
Exercise Three to blink an LED on a solderless breadboard.
Extra Notes
These extra notes include:
- Other code options
- Swapping out the processor chip
- Installing IAR Workbench
- Connecting the LaunchPad for the first time
- MSP430ware documentation collection from TI