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Programmable Microcontrollers with Applications

Programmable Microcontrollers with Applications

MSP430 LaunchPad with CCS and Grace

Cem nsalan

H. Deniz Grhan

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About the Authors

Cem nsalan, Ph.D., has worked in signal and image processing for 15 years. After getting a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 2003, he started working at Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, where he established the DSP Laboratory and has been teaching microprocessor and digital signal processing courses for 7 years. Dr. nsalan has published 16 journal articles and 4 international books. He holds one patent.

H. Deniz Grhan received his B.Sc. from Yeditepe University. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in digital signal processing and embedded systems at the same university and works in the DSP Laboratory.

Contents

Preface

Smart systems have become inevitable parts of our lives. Every smart system needs an information processing unit. A microcontroller is a good candidate for such an operation. Therefore, a professional engineer or a fresh graduate should know how a microcontroller works. This book aims to introduce the working principles of a current-model microcontroller through applications. To do this, we need a specific microcontroller platform. The recently introduced Texas Instruments MSP430 LaunchPad is an excellent choice for this purpose. It is a compact platform with an MSP430 microcontroller on it.

The first step in understanding a microcontroller is to examine its construction. We devote three chapters to this issue. In , we focus on the hardware of the MSP430 microcontroller. Therefore, we look at the central processing unit, memory, input and output ports, clocks and the timer modules, ADC and comparator modules, and the digital communication module. This chapter summarizes the properties of the MSP430 microcontroller to be considered throughout the book.

The second step in understanding a microcontroller is learning how to program it. To do so, we introduce Code Composer Studio (CCS) in . We also look at the addressing modes and the usage of the stack in this chapter.

The third step in understanding a microcontroller is using it through different applications. To do so, we should know its properties in detail. In , we provide sample applications on all topics considered. We picked these applications from real-life problems to show how a microcontroller can be used to solve them. In this final chapter, we provide the problem statement, equipment list, and circuit layout of each application. We expect the reader to implement these applications to master his or her knowledge in microcontroller-based system design.

In this book, we try to make all of these microcontroller concepts understandable to an undergraduate engineering student. Therefore, a professional engineer may also benefit from the book. Since we pick the MSP430 LaunchPad with the MSP430 microcontroller, the reader may find a wide variety of applications besides the ones considered in this book. However, the ones mentioned here will be the benchmark applications for the future. As a result, we expect the reader to become familiar with the microcontroller concepts in action.

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Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of Texas Instruments in the framing and execution of this work through the European University Program. Most of the figures used in this book are the property of TI. They are used here with TIs permission.