The MSP432: Introduction to the Launchpad, its RTOS, and IDEs (Energia, CCSv6)

[@efox29]

I have yet to see one bad video. Every video is a banger. Clear. Well explained. Well demo'd.

[@kirtikaran1095]

Hello sir, DO you have any plan to extend this series. If so please ASAP, if not please try. I learn so much from you thanks for all that

[@sais8681]

Awesome video. very detailed explanation of the code. Great job and hoping for more videos on this.. thank you.

[@andymkhome6572]

Hi Derek, Great intro to the MSP432 Launchpad. I followed through your examples on Ubuntu 14.04 in Energia and CCS, including the Energy Trace and Debug; pleased to report it all worked well. Many thanks for this! Are you making any more videos on this board?

[@ahbushnell1]

So when will there be a book on the MSP432?

[@Magnetic999]

Thanks for this great introduction!

[@bluehornet6752]

That is a SWEET little board there. Only 71 milli-watts there at the end? Wow--impressive. I love the Arduino-like development environment as well. Very nice. At $795, CCS really isn't that terribly-priced for professional work. For instance, in order to get Enterprise-level embedded Linux support with Qt, you need the full "Enterprise" license, which can only be purchased on a perpetual (ie; one-time purchase) basis. And that's about $9K last I checked--and only includes one year of support. After that, it's another few thousand per year for support. Obviously you can use the open-source "community license" version--but then you're stuck with dynamic linking, which may or may not be a problem. Apples and oranges to CCS, I know. But the point is that at under $1K for a professional development tool, it's quite refreshing. Looks like they've done a very nice job with their Eclipse add-ons.

[@faizanqureshi9837]

Hopefully new series

[@keen2461]

Great video. Thanks a lot.

[@LemoUtan]

Very useful. Rather weirdly, the RTOS Object View no longer includes the GPIO - the single most important viewandum in the CCS/RTOS GPIO project that you demonstrate - in the viewable modules. Everything else is there - it is specifically the GPIO, and its four watch lines, which has gone missing. Any idea what's up with that? Otherwise the debugging and stepping over works exactly as you have described.

[@ShirishJadav162]

Does the kit have its own boot loader or RTOS ? if I want to make my own board with MSP432 with plan IC How would I program the chip from energia and one launchpad kit?

[@artmezins3785]

I'm a bit late, but.. there was no discussion in the RTOS section regarding whether or not the serial function (or others for that matter) is thread-safe. And since there are different ways of making shared resources thread-safe, which method is employed here (e.g. does it use a semaphore to block access)? I suspect that there were no output collisions in the video because the processor is not heavily loaded, otherwise, how could the compiler "know" to chain the sequence of serial.println and serial.print? I've seen some really scrambled busybox output from multiple threads on commercial software that scared me (but it was only for debug code that never got turned off). Also, the intro stated that the RTOS is priority driven, but I saw no code with the priority assignments. It could be by order of file listings, but that is not something I would want.

[@Ivan-fg666]

your video is great, thank you for share whit us!

[@nicholasoutramooty]

ARM seem to be really pushing MBED, which is vendor independent and also supports a RTOS and a standardised API for interfacing (cross platform at source level). How do you think this compares?

[@IanPhillipsUK]

Not really sure where you are going with this. It's not really a question, but a weakly bounded assertion; with the implicit verb 'discuss'. Perhaps that's the point!! Ian

[@nicholasoutramooty]

Mostly agree, except the question at the end is "how do they compare?" Not a quick or simple answer. I can't answer it yet, but we're switching to MBED starting next semester (and I've got the summer to prep). TI have a nice vertically integrated system, but it's locked to TI of course. Nothing wrong with that of course (as an iPhone developer I have to say this!). MBED 3 looks very intriguing however, and the community support is growing.

[@Dr.Wiryajati]

Nice video, good luck

[@Dinozar]

Dear Derek, can you help me? I have the same board and use Energia 1.6.10E18, but I can't find my black bord in boards manager, just red one is and my board works with it incorrect. Serial.print doesn't work for example. Thank you for advance.

[@yordan_ganev]

can i get the size of this launchpad please

[@Aemilindore]

Dear Derek, I truly value your videos. They have been really educational. Despite my gratefulness, I beg to disagree with you on some things you mentioned throughout this video. Although the MSP432 has a Cortex M4F core, there is a considerable amount of differences that need to be taken into account if you say MSP432 platform will support the upcoming beaglebones X15s 2 Cortex-M MCUs. I think you would rather have chosen a TIVA Series Cortex M or gone with a different vendor simply for the reason that MSP432 is build similar to the Vonnumann MSP430 MCUs. If you consider the clock tree, there it self a lot of differences can be noted. Could you chose a more appropriate true Cortex M4 platform? MSP432 sounds like a hybrid of Vonnumann MSP430 and ARM Cortex-M4F. If a person needs to teach ARM Cortex-M, MSP432 is absolutely not a good starting point.

[@DerekMolloyatDCU]

Thanks Elusive Sanity, You are of course correct on the architecture, but I don't mention the X15 in the video for that reason (just on the Google+ post). My use of this platform is independent of the BeagleBone -- it is for a BeagleBone-free classroom project in the university on mobile robotics that could benefit from RTOS. However, I still think there is value in BeagleBone users engaging with these type of tools (especially given the low cost of ownership) so that they can use the board as a service-processor or that they start to become familiar with the type of tools that can be used to program the M4s on the AM5728.

[@ariefnoorrahman3492]

I am newbie in ARM, however, on the MSP432 documentation, it clearly says that it use Harvard Architecture as another ARM M4F processor...cmiiw

[@JATIN9268]

How much this tutorial is useful in order to understand RTOS for CC1350?

[@circuitstate]

Very useful. Thanks

[@AbuSous2000PR]

thx .... many thx