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Getting Started with the MSP430 Launchpad

Develop your own unique microcontroller-based applications using the MSP430 LauchPad

Adrian Fernandez (Author), Dung Dang (Author)

9780124115880, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 15 April 2013

200 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.4 cm, 0.29 kg

This book explores the world of microcontroller development through friendly lessons and progressively challenging projects, which will have you blink LEDs, make music with buzzers & interact with different sensors like accelerometers and temperature sensors. This book is focused 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. Many of the 25+ projects will also leverage external components, such as the highly-integrated Educational BoosterPack, which is a modular extension to the LaunchPad and includes many components such as an RGB LED, character LCD & potentiometer.

This book provides helpful guides that break down hardware circuits through visual diagrams and includes fully-commented code examples. Concepts are broken down and explained in an easy to follow language and analogies to help you understand the principles behind each project/system. The projects will encourage you to use and even combine the fundamental concepts to develop your ideas in creating new microcontroller solutions.

Coverage includes:

  • Digital Input/Output: buttons, LEDs, turning anything into a button

  • Analog Input/Output: sensors, temperature, accelerometer, potentiometer, etc.

  • Programming fundamentals: conditional branches & loops, flow, logic, number systems

  • Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM): square wave, buzzer, analog signal simulation

  • Serial Communication: UART, SPI & I2C

  • Code development using Energia, a free, open-source code editor and compiler

  • Debugging through serial communication with a computer

  • Interfacing with external components such as LEDs, buzzers, potentiometers, sensors & more.

With the help of this book, you will be challenged to think about developing your own unique microcontroller-based application, and you will be equipped to start solving various problems, adding intelligence to existing products, or even developing your own innovative creations with a LaunchPad development kit.

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

Subject Areas: Electronic devices & materials [TJFD], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ]
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