New TI Microcontroller

[Alistair MacDonald]

This might be interesting to a few of us. A new 32 bit
micro-controller for TI...
http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/microcontrollers_16-bit_32-bit/msp/low_power_performance/msp432p4x/overview.page

Alistair

[Brian Degger]

This sounds interesting, 

ADC

• 24-ch 14-bit (13.2 ENOB) differential ADC
• Up to 1 MSPS
• 375 uA at full speed

  Alistair

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[jmarc...@gmail.com]

I'll be ordering a couple of these Lauchpads later today, if anyone wants to join in and share shipping - which costs the same $14 for 1 or 10 boards - let me know.

It might be a while until they reach the UK distributors (Farnell, RS..) and may be more expensive too, Digikey is selling them at twice the price of TI.

[jmarc...@gmail.com]

Now this an interesting development, there's a new Energia (the Arduino-like platform for the TI Lauchpad) release that supports running multiple sketches in parallel using TI's Real Time OS on the MSP432 platform.

Details at: http://energia.nu/guide/multitasking/

[Chris]

Interesting, it may not be that great. I've not looked fully into this but..

"Interprocess communication can easily be done by using global variables. "
 

makes me think they are not paying any attention to thread safety.

Chris

 

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From: "jmarc...@gmail.com" <jmarc...@gmail.com>
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Subject: [Makers] Re: New TI Microcontroller

Now this an interesting development, there's a new Energia (the Arduino-like platform for the TI Lauchpad) release that supports running multiple sketches in parallel using TI's Real Time OS on the MSP432 platform.

Details at: http://energia.nu/guide/multitasking/

[Alistair MacDonald]

My views on Arduino not being an appropriate platform have been said before. I don't believe it has much of a place. It is just complicated to get right and easy to get wrong so it is not simple and accessible, and that is the whole point of Arduno. That said I am still glad it is an option.

  Alistair

[Jon Davies]

All this talk of (what seems to be) multi threaded applications, goes against my reckoning of what an MCU is trying to achieve.  I currently echo Alistair's viewpoint on this new TI device.