On Jun 23, 2006, at 11:01 AM, Martin Klingensmith wrote:

> With all the recent discussion of the MSP430, I was wondering if 
> someone
> who has started using it could give me an idea of how they got into it,
>
You might want to look at my "trip report" from 2000:
   http://www.geocities.com/westfw/trip-report-msp430.txt

Some of the data in there may be obsolete, now.

I general, the 430 seems to be a general 16bit von-Neuman architecture
part, somewhat more pleasant to program than most 8 bit chips (including
PIC and AVR.)  However, in my case, the hardware-friendliness and 
pricing
of the PIC and AVR (drive current, packages, group buys on PICList, etc)
have caused me to neglect the 430 after my initial interest.  (and not
having a need for extremely low power consumption.)

BillW
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