Getting Started with the MSP430 LaunchPad

Informationen zum Autor Adrian Fernandez is the manager of the Microcontroller Customer Experience team at Texas Instruments and holds a B.S.E.E from the University of Texas at Austin. In his role, he is responsible for defining the microcontroller development ecosystem and augmenting the ways developers interact and develop with TI microcontrollers. In recent years, Adrian has focused on the LaunchPad Evaluation Development Platform to create a low-cost, easy-to-use and friendly tool for enabling people of all experience levels to start making stuff with microcontrollers. Through developing the LaunchPad ecosystem, Adrian has had the pleasure of working and interacting with the online & maker community. Adrian lives in Dallas, TX with his better-half Ellen and pug Ollie. Dung Dang is an applications engineer for Texas Instruments Microcontroller Group and holds an M.S.E.E from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas. Serving various roles in new product development, he is responsible for shaping new microcontroller definitions and using the products to realize and enable innovative applications. Dung has also defined and driven several microcontroller software solutions and development tools. Within the area of development tools, Dung started the work on the LaunchPad since its inception, created the very first BoosterPacks, and has since continued to develop and support the ecosystem surrounding this tool. Through this work, he has been privileged and fortunate to witness the excitement and the warm reception of the LaunchPad in the community. This inspires Dung to keep on making and contributing to this incredible and ever-growing community of makers. Dung lives in Dallas, TX with his wife Kacy, who lovingly puts up with his late nights, and Buck, a Border Collie who never fails to outsmart him. Klappentext The MSP430 Launchpad, released in 2009, has been the fastest adopted development tool in the industry. A combination of its price, its feature sets and its capabilities have driven its past success. The success is looking to continue for the future in that it is being adopted across universities, secondary schools and hobbyist groups across the world. There is a 160,000-user installed base with an estimated quarter million by 2013! Zusammenfassung Focuses on the MSP-EXP430G2 LaunchPad Evaluation Kit! which is a complete microcontroller development platform that includes everything you need to start creating microcontroller-based projects. ...

Autorentext
Adrian Fernandez is the manager of the Microcontroller Customer Experience team at Texas Instruments and holds a B.S.E.E from the University of Texas at Austin. In his role, he is responsible for defining the microcontroller development ecosystem and augmenting the ways developers interact and develop with TI microcontrollers. In recent years, Adrian has focused on the LaunchPad Evaluation Development Platform to create a low-cost, easy-to-use and friendly tool for enabling people of all experience levels to start making stuff with microcontrollers. Through developing the LaunchPad ecosystem, Adrian has had the pleasure of working and interacting with the online & maker community. Adrian lives in Dallas, TX with his better-half Ellen and pug Ollie. Dung Dang is an applications engineer for Texas Instruments Microcontroller Group and holds an M.S.E.E from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas. Serving various roles in new product development, he is responsible for shaping new microcontroller definitions and using the products to realize and enable innovative applications. Dung has also defined and driven several microcontroller software solutions and development tools. Within the area of development tools, Dung started the work on the LaunchPad since its inception, created the very first BoosterPacks, and has since continued to develop and support the ecosystem surrounding this tool. Through this work, he has been privileged and fortunate to witness the excitement and the warm reception of the LaunchPad in the community. This inspires Dung to keep on making and contributing to this incredible and ever-growing community of makers.Dung lives in Dallas, TX with his wife Kacy, who lovingly puts up with his late nights, and Buck, a Border Collie who never fails to outsmart him.

Klappentext
The MSP430 Launchpad, released in 2009, has been the fastest adopted development tool in the industry. A combination of its price, its feature sets and its capabilities have driven its past success. The success is looking to continue for the future in that it is being adopted across universities, secondary schools and hobbyist groups across the world. There is a 160,000-user installed base with an estimated quarter million by 2013!

Zusammenfassung
Focuses on the MSP-EXP430G2 LaunchPad Evaluation Kit, which is a complete microcontroller development platform that includes everything you need to start creating microcontroller-based projects.

Inhalt

1. Prepare for Liftoff - Welcome! 2. Meet the LaunchPad 3. The Fellowship of the LaunchPad 4. Meet Energia - a software development environment 5. Day in the life of a microcontroller 6. Think digitally 7. The Ins and Outs of Digital I/O 8. Analog: The infinite shades of grey. 9. 1s & 0s Revisited: The digital stream 10. The Languages of LaunchPad 11. LaunchPad is just the beginning Quick References