14.1(h) - Serial Communication on the MSP430: The UART - Transmitting a Character to the Terminal

[@Xevion]

Really great tutorial for learning UART. Very helpful while getting my MSP430FR2355 working.

[@omartusson]

Great video as usual. Thank you very much.

[@HirilPatelhexagonal]

Thank you for such detailed description. can you advice me on a question here? I am recieving sampled data from ADS1220 chip from 3 channel sequentially via spi in MSP430f5529 Mcu but when I try to forward that value to serial port via UART to see it in Maltab I get "ñ/ c ó Ó/ " 
p/ ] ‰ -/ A ‘ ¿/ ˆ ä &/ " note that I am using "/" to seperate transactions. But my question is is there a way to send Hex value via uart? Thank you

[@Project-f7b]

Why does the code not work? #include //MSP430F5358 int main(void) { WDTCTL = WDTPW | WDTHOLD; // stop watchdog timer P5DIR |= BIT3;//LED 4 //--setup UART A2 UCA2CTLW0 |= UCSWRST; // software reset UCA2CTL0 |= UCSWRST; |= set bit UCA2CTLW0 |= UCSSEL__SMCLK; //choose SMCLK=BRCLK (115200 baud) UCA2BRW = 8; // prescalar = 8 UCA2MCTL = 0xD6; // OS16=low freq, set modulation P9SEL &= ~BIT3; // change P4.3 function to A1 UART Tx P9SEL |= BIT3; PM5CTL0 &= ~LOCKLPM5; // turn on io UCA2CTLW0 &= ~UCSWRST; // out of software reset UCA2CTL0 |= UCSWRST; &= ~ clear a bit int i; while (1) { P5OUT ^= BIT3;//LED 4 // Toggle the pin (XOR operation) __delay_cycles(100000);// Add a delay to observe the toggling UCA2TXBUF = 'A'; // transmits ASCII code for 'A' over UART for(i=0; i