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MSP430 microcontrollers

TI's MSP430 microcontroller family, which provides an ULTRA-low power solution, is now available for the first time in North America. The product family, first introduced in Europe, offers a high-performance 16-bit reduced instruction set computing (RISC) microcontroller unit (MCU) and integrated peripherals at industry-leading MIPS/Watt performance. Fully active, the MSP430 devices consume only 400 uA (Vcc = 3), and in sleep mode they consume only 0.1 uA. This combination is ideal for utility metering, industrial metering, high-precision portable measurement and home measurement such as thermostats, smoke detectors and security systems.

The family of devices features an integrated 14-bit resolution A/D converter, a powerful hardware multiplier, an on-chip crystal display (LCD) driver, a universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART/SPI), powerful timers, an internal oscillator and JTAG. The on-chip integration of these peripherals makes the MSP430 the highest performing, lowest power single-chip solution for most battery-powered applications.

The MSP430 family is fully supported by a development tool set including a Windows™-based software simulator, evaluation boards with assembler and linker, C-compiler with industry-leading efficiency, in-circuit emulators, UV-EPROM devices, programming adapter or gang programmer for one-time programmable (OTP) and a JTAG tool set for debug.

Suggested resale pricing of 10K OTP devices starts at $4.50*. Suggested resale pricing of 100K ROM devices starts at $1.75.

*Pricing in U.S. dollars.

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For complete information, order: MSP430 Family Brochure (SLAB034) and Data Sheets (SLAS163, SLAS164, SLAS165A). See Related Product Information.