Launchpad’s
Launchpad’s
The MSP430F5529 Launchpad is a powerful, low-cost evaluation (and development) tool.
As the diagram shows, the board is really divided into two halves. The top portion (above the ------
- line) is an open-source emulator (called eZ-FET lite). This connects our 'target' MSP430 to a PC
running a debugging tool, such as Code Composer Studio. You can isolate the emulator from the
'target' processor by pulling the appropriate jumpers (that straddle the dashed line).
The lower portion of the board provides the target of our application programming. There are
LED's, pushbuttons, and pins we can use to let our programs interact with the 'real world'.
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