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Mass erase of MSP-EXP430FR5739

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , — admin @ 2012-02-07 22:03

I bought myself a new toy – MSP-EXP430FR5739 experimenter board. It didn’t stay working long because I ran into the same trouble like the guy here. Mspdebug was complaining about blow fuses. Fix was quite easy thanks to my another toy MSP-EXP430G2 LaunchPad which I luckily bought together with the experimenter board. (more…)

MSPGCC4, debugging

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , — admin @ 2010-04-13 20:34

I recently found a forked project MSPGCC4. It is built against newer GCC and GDB. It supports multiple versions. I tried GCC 4.4.3 and GDB 7.0.1. The compilation and installation is very easy. Just run the buildgcc.sh, choose wanted versions and watch the progress.

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MSP430, GCC, mspdebug

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , — admin @ 2010-04-10 22:12

This article describes brief steps to setup a Linux development tools for MSP430 MCU – compiler and programmer. MSP430 is not as well linux-supported as AVR or 8051 but fortunately there are ways to make it working.

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