The image below shows thehardware implementation of a Full or Half Duplex setup. Nowthat we know how UART is set up physically between various systems,let’s examine the serial communication protocol ...

ControlEasy does this with a matching piece of code running on any MSP430 with a hardware UART (like the TI Launchpad) sending and receiving data to the computer.

The MSP430 is a popular microcontroller, and on board is a neat little clock source, a digitally controlled oscillator, or DCO. This oscillator can be used for everything from setting baud rates fo… ...

In a previous excerpt, the authors reviewed the basics of digital I/O and walked through examples of I/O design using the TI MSP430 MCU. This latest excerpt looks at LaunchPad programming, starting in ...