Book Description
Learn about designing, programming, and developing with the popular new Texas Instruments family of microcontrollers, the MSP430 series with this new book from Chris Nagy. This product line is experiencing explosive growth due to its low-power consumption and powerful features, but very little design and application information is available other than what is offered by the manufacturer. The book fills a gap in the technical literature for embedded systems engineers by offering a more complete combination of technical data, example code, and descriptive prose than is available from the manufacturer reference information, and is useful to both professionals and hobbyists.

Intended for embedded engineers who are new to the embedded field, or for the thousands of engineers who have experience with other microcontrollers (such as PICs, 8051s, or Motorola HC0x devices) but are new to the MSP430 line, Chris Nagy offers a thorough and practical description of the device features, gives development guidelines, and provides design examples. Code examples are used in virtually every chapter and area also included on the companion CD-ROM, and/or online. The book is divided into three sections: the first section provides detailed descriptions of the devices themselves; the second describes hardware/firmware development for the devices; the third is designed to incorporate information from the first two, and provide guidelines and examples of designs.

* Get up-to-speed on the TI MSP430 product family's features and idiosyncrasies
* A 'hand-holding' reference to help get started on designs
* Accompanying CD-ROM includes code examples

Book Info
Guide to designing, programming, and developing with Texas Instruments' most versatile chip series. For hardware and firmware engineers using the TI MSP430 product line. Softcover. DLC: Embedded computer systems--Design and construction--Data processing.

About the Author
Chris Nagy is a senior embedded systems engineer with Itron, Inc., a large company that has pioneered the field of "automatic meter reading" for the electric, gas and water industries. Chris has over 15 years in the embedded systems field, with the past several years spent designing with TI's family of microcontroller products.

ANNOTATION

Audience: Embedded systems engineers and programmers; Electronics technicians working in embedded systems, inhouse training departments of electronics companies, electronics hobbyists.

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