Getting Started With the MSP-EXP430FR5739 FRAM Experimenter Board
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1.2
Kit Contents
The MSP-EXP430FR5739 FRAM Experimenter Board kit includes the following:
•
The MSP-EXP430FR5739 board
•
Mini USB-B cable, 0.5 m
•
12-pin PCB connectors (two male and two female)
•
32.768-kHz clock crystal from Microcrystal (
www.microcrystal.com
)
The 32.768-kHz crystal can be used as the low-frequency XT oscillator. It is not required for the User
Experience code and can be populated as needed.
•
Quick start guide
See
Section 2.1
for details on the associated software and source code.
1.3
MSP-EXP430FR5739 Board Overview
The experimenter board (see
Figure 1
) comes equipped with the following features:
•
USB debugging and programming interface that uses a driverless installation and provides an
application UART to communicate back to the PC
•
On-board ADXL335 accelerometer
•
NTC thermistor for temperature sensing
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Two user input switches and a reset switch
•
Eight LEDs for output display
•
Connectivity to the MSP-EXP430F5438 Experimenter Board
•
Connectivity to CCxxx radio daughter cards
•
Easily accessible device pins for debugging purposes or as socket for adding customized extension
•
Separate power jumpers to measure power to the MSP430 and the RF daughter card.
1.4
Connecting the Hardware
Connect the MSP-EXP430FR5739 to the PC using the enclosed USB cable. If the PC has an MSP430
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) such as Code Composer Studio
™
or IAR Embedded
Workbench
™
already installed, the driver files are automatically located and installed.
If there are no IDEs installed in the PC, unzip the folder associated with this user's guide (see
Section 2.1
)
and point the installation to the [Install Path]\MSP-EXP430FR5739\Drivers folder.
After the drivers are installed, go to My Computer
→
Properties
→
Hardware
→
Device Manager to verify
that the board is enumerated under Ports COM
&
LPT as MSP430 Application UART.
1.5
Starting the PC GUI
The Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the PC is located in the associated zip file (see
Section 2.1
) under
[Install Path]\MSP-EXP430FR5739\Graphical User Interface.
Double click on FRAM_GUI.exe to load the PC application. More information on how to use this
application is provided in
Section 2
.
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MSP-EXP430FR5739 FRAM Experimenter Board
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May 2011
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Revised February 2012
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–
2012, Texas Instruments Incorporated
