Getting Started with the MSP430 Launchpad

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Название: Getting Started with the MSP430 Launchpad

Автор: Adrian Fernandez, Dung Dang

Издательство: Newnes

Год: 2013

Страниц: 189

ISBN: 0124115888, 978-0-12-411588-0

Формат: PDF

Размер: 11.3 Мб

Язык: English

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.

Content

Chapter 1 - Prepare for Liftoff!

Chapter 2 - Meet the LaunchPad

Chapter 3 - The Fellowship of the LaunchPad

Chapter 4 - Meet Energia—a Software Development Environment

Chapter 5 - Day in the Life of a Microcontroller

Chapter 6 - Think Digitally

Chapter 7 - The Ins and Outs of Digital I/O

Chapter 8 - Analog: The Infinite Shades of Gray

Chapter 9 - 1s and 0s Revisited: The Digital Stream

Chapter 10 - The Languages of LaunchPad

Chapter 11 - LaunchPad is Just the Beginning