>> I was always an AVR man, then I discovered the MSP430 series... :) > > Interesting. I plugged MPS430 into mouser and what came up is a large > 100 pin chip that is fairly expensive. Are there smaller versions in > the series? I guess I have a lot of reading to do.
Oh my, yes. There are some really nice ones in 14- and 20-pin DIP packages, and there are some very affordable "launchpad" demo boards for them. I designed in an MSP430FR5969 in a recent project, due to its amazingly low power consumption and plenty of I/O (I needed a bunch of ADC pins, two UARTs, SPI, etc.). > I'm in a quandary. In upcoming products, I need more power than the > AVRs can provide. I feel like I should be on the ARM bandwagon but I > have no idea where to start. Look at some of the PJRC offerings, the Teensy LC is only $12 and pretty powerful. > This TI chip looks interesting but it > chaps me to have to pay for dev tools. TI offers a free IDE that runs on Linux, and there's Energia, which is an Arduino port to the MSP430 (and related) chips, also free and it's multiplatform. > Yeah, I know the GNU chain is > free but sometimes one just has to have a source code debugger. True. I haven't played with TI's IDE, but I expect it has a source code debugger. Energia, however, doesn't offer that kind of functionality. - John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/DDFA64C5-AC68-4F41-9A6A-AC95CDB921FA%40mac.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
