OLIMEX© 2012
MSP430-T5510 User's Manual
CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW
1. Introduction to the chapter
Thank you for choosing the MSP430-T5510 development board from Olimex! This document
provides a user’s guide for the Olimex MSP430-T5510 board. As an overview, this chapter gives
the scope of this document and lists the board’s features. The document’s organization is then
detailed.
The MSP430-T5510 development board enables code development of applications running on the
microcontroller MSP430F5510, manufactured by Texas Instruments.
1.1 Features
MCU: MSP430F5510 with 32K Bytes Program Flash, 4K Bytes RAM, 25Mhz
MSP430F5510 microcontroller
mini USB connector
User button
RESET and BOOT buttons
JTAG connector
UEXT connector for UEXT modules
T-shape for easy breadboarding
Dimensions: 2.5''x2.1'' (6.35cm x 5.33cm)
1.2 Target market and purpose of the board
MSP430-T5510 is intended to work with Energia - an Arduino-like IDE for MSP430. The
community is working on adding full support for Energia. At the time of writing this manual such
support isn't fully added but it is on the way. When such support is implemented there will be
software examples below in Energia format.
MSP430-T5510 was specially designed for the EasyMSP project which is created by Matthew
Burmeister (a.k.a. MattTheGeek from 43oh.com). Matt did amazing work by creating Arduino-like
language and commands to compile with MSP430 hardware just adding these in header files, so
they compile with MSPGCC. However, personal problems restrained Matthew to finish the project
he started. That is why Energia is the now default and recommended development environment.
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