LaunchPad Platform

The LaunchPad is a development platform from Texas Instruments for different MCUs, 16-bit MSP430 and 32-bit ARM-based. 

All the boards feature a programmer-debugger and include a USB cable. They are aggressively priced and offer an unparalleled value. 

The shields are called BoosterPacks and come in 20-pin or 40-pin connectors. They offer an extended range of displays, sensors and communication radios, including sub-1GHz, ZigBee, Bluetooth and WiFi.

In the list below, references in bold are recommended and references in italic are deprecated.

​16-bit LaunchPads

• ​MSP430G2
• MSP430F5529
• MSP430FR2331
• MSP430FR2433
• MSP430FR4133 and MSP430FR6989 with LCD​
• MSP430FR5969
• MSP430FR5994

​32-bit LaunchPads

• MSP432P401R
  • RTOS for Everyone
• ​MSP432P4111​
• TM4C123 ​
  • ​​TM4C120 Stellaris

​Other LaunchPads

• LaunchPad Hercules ​​

​LaunchPads for IoT

• CC3235 WiFi​​
  • CC3220 WiFi
  • ​CC3200 WiFi

• CC1352 sub-1 GHz + BLE
  • CC1310 Sub-1 GHz
• MSP432E401Y Ethernet
  • ​​TM4C129 Ethernet​ ​

LaunchPad SensorTag Kits

• CC1352R
  • ​​CC1350

Reference

• ​LaunchPads and BoosterPacks Pins Maps

Pins Maps

I've designed a pins map for the LaunchPads and BoosterPacks, with standardised colours for the Energia implementation of the I²C, SPI and UART ports and digital and analog GPIO pins.

Find the list of the LaunchPads and BoosterPacks Pins Maps.

The Inter-Boards Pins Compatibility Table includes all the LaunchPads and BoosterPacks to check compatibilities.

Development Tools

The official IDE is Code Composer Studio, maintained by Texas Instruments and based on Eclipse. It is available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. 

Most of the LaunchPads are supported by Energia, a fork of the Arduino IDE based on the Wiring framework and available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. 

Based on the Energia framework, embedXcode is a template for Xcode on Mac OS X and Visual Micro a plug-in for Visual Studio on Windows.

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