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One of the newer TI microcontrollers with ARM Cortex M4F is going to be in the market soon. It is offered in a relatively low price.

Best of all it contains a Floating Point Unit, so you know what you can do now. 1.234 x 5.678 with much lesser cycles!

However the things are only be shipped to me by late September, so need to wait for me to find a suitable compiler (a no-cost GCC) and write up some guides on how to play with it.

Texas Instruments Stellaris Launchpad

Woh......

I was about to order this launch pad for RM20.47+p&p from E14, when I see this post...

[url]MSP-EXP430G2 - TEXAS INSTRUMENTS - KIT, DEV, MSP430, LAUNCHPAD | element14 Malaysia
http://my.element14.com/texas-instrumen ... dp/1853793[/url]



Brian is always one step ahead of us.

Allen

That is cheap!

These Launchpads are really impressive. The MSP430, the Piccolo (32-bit) and the Stellaris have those "shield" addons like the Arduino.

However, these are not popular in Malaysia, but in America, the TI and Atmel microcontrollers are all over the place

Hey, what are you waiting for? Just 20.++

robosang WROTE:Hey, what are you waiting for? Just 20.++

It's kinda cheap, so it's a pretty good buy.

For ideas on these TI MSP430 Launchpad - try the 43Oh forums.

The RAM and the flash sizes of those MSP430s are really small compared to many of the PIC microcontrollers, but according to the datasheets I read, most of the MSP430 are for general sensor-based applications. So, these microcontrollers must depend on another microcontroller (more powerful) to do a bigger job.

Check this out too: Teensy 3.0.

They have been quite successful working with Atmel USB-enabled chips in their previous models. Now they are going to release Teensy 3.0 with Freescale's ARM Cortex-M4.

sich WROTE:Check this out too: Teensy 3.0.

They have been quite successful working with Atmel USB-enabled chips in their previous models. Now they are going to release Teensy 3.0 with Freescale's ARM Cortex-M4.

Thanks for sharing. It is small and cool. I would like to see how much it can do with the M4.

Found an Arduino-alike software for TI MSP430 MCUs -> Energia. Should work for this 16-bit MCU LaunchPad. Since I don't have one, can't test and write a review about it. Anyone has this development board?