Texas Instruments’ MSP430 series of microcontrollers has been the standard extremely low power microcontroller for several years now. It’s not an ARM, though, so while there are fans of the ...

Most modern microcontrollers provide a range of timers and the MSP430 is no exception ... it can instead be used as an interval timer if this protection is not needed. Basic timer1: Present in the ...

There are dozens of different ARM cores alone, hundreds of 8051 clones, and weirder stuff including the Cypress PSoC and TI’s MSP430. Which one is best? Which microcontroller that costs under a ...