New LaunchPad Development Kit MSP-EXP430FR6989 available from element14 for TI ultra-low-power MCU
20 May 2015, element14 has announced the addition of the Texas Instruments(TI) MSP-EXP430FR6989 LaunchPad Kit to its extensive portfolio of technology products, which includes the largest range of development kits available globally from one single source.
An easy-to-use Evaluation Module (EVM) for the ultra-low power MSP430FR6989 FRAM microcontroller (MCU), the MSP-EXP430FR6989 LaunchPad Development Kit includes on-board emulation for programming, debugging and energy measurements as well as a 320-segment Liquid Crystal Display (LCD).
David Shen, Group Chief Technology Officer at Premier Farnell said, “The MSP-EXP430FR6989 LaunchPad highlights our partnership with Texas Instruments to bring the latest products and technologies to its popular LaunchPad development ecosystem. This easy-to-use dev kit simplifies rapid prototyping as it supports a wide range of BoosterPacks and includes advanced features such as TI’s EnergyTrace++ technology to enable real-time power consumption readings and CPU and peripheral state updates through the EnergyTrace GUI.”
The MSP430FR6989 microcontroller features ultra-low-power consumption with 128 KB of embedded FRAM (Ferroelectric Random Access Memory), delivering high endurance and high speed write access. It also comes with demo examples including a stopwatch and a simple thermometer application using the on-chip temperature sensor. Free software development tools are also available, such as TI’s Eclipse-based Code Composer Studio (CCS) integrated development environment (IDE) and IAR Embedded Workbench.
The Texas Instruments MSP-EXP430FR6989 LaunchPad Development Kit is priced at £12.85 and ships from Farnell element14 in Europe, Newark element14 in North America ($17.99), and element14 in Asia (S$31.60); details are available at http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-74652.
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