Chapter 8. Hardware tools

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What is available?
Setting up the JTAG interface
Parallel port issue with Windows
Parallel port issues with Linux
MSP430 evaluation and prototyping cards

What is available?

Texas Instruments produce fairly inexpensive development kits for the MSP430 range of processors. These consist of a small prototyping board holding the processor, and a JTAG-to-parallel-port adapter suitable for any standard PC type machine. Evaluation boards and TI compatible JTAG-to-parallel port tools are available from several suppliers, including Olimex, SoftBaugh and Lierda. Any of these tools may be used with the debug facilities which mspgcc provides.