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MSP432P401R SimpleLink™ Microcontroller LaunchPad™ Development Kit
(MSP
‑
EXP432P401R)
2.9.2.2 MSP432P401R Device Revision Differences
The primary MSP432P401R silicon differences are the differences between Rev. B and Rev. C devices.
For details of the differences, see Moving From Evaluation to Production With SimpleLink™
MSP432P401x Microcontrollers.
The first shipments of Rev 2.0 (Red) LaunchPad development kit have XMS432P401R Rev C.
preproduction silicon before the final production version of MSP432P401R Rev C. silicon is released.
Which device is on a particular LaunchPad development kit can be determined by looking at the markings
on the MSP432P401R device. The XMS version have a marking of "XMS" instead of "MSP". For details
on the differences between the preproduction and production silicon, see XMS432P401x Rev. C
Preproduction Advisories.
To work around Advisory 1 in the document above, and as a general way to update to the latest device
BSL, TI provides a utility to download the latest BSL. This utility is available inside of TI Resource Explorer
(see Figure 13). Alternatively, the BSL can be updated by running Program_MSP432_BSL.bat in the
source files for MSP432P401R BSL update.
Figure 13. BSL Update Utility in TI Resource Explorer