For Valentine\’s Day my son needed to make a \”mailbox\” for his kindergarten class. He & his mother made a rocket out of an old oat container. Since this was a family project, I decided that my contribution would be lighting it up. My son was quite excited when I told him that I was putting lights on it and it would have a computer to control them. Being sharp as a tack, he quickly asked, \”Daddy, where will the keyboard go?\” I had to explain that it would be a little computer without a keyboard, just a button. He was still excited.
Setting up an IAR Project using the TI MSP430 and SimpliciTI
Many of you know the possibilities that ultra-low power devices open up. One thing TI has done to make things even lower power is to craft their own \”lite\” protocol, SimpliciTI. You even get nice, examples for use when you install the protocol dev files. Now, what happens when you want to do something more than just compile the examples, good luck. Exactly what you need to add to the project is left as an exercise to the coder (you). This walk-thru is for using SimpliciTI with the ez430-RF2500 kit. Changing it for one of the other processors should not be hard, but I don\’t work with them.
The first thing is to make sure that you have the correct version of IAR. If you get the kickstart version off of IAR\’s web site, it will not allow you to link the projects because of the code size limitation (4k). You can get a 30 day unlimited trial from IAR. This example uses IAR Embedded Workbench version 4.20.1 and SimpliciTI v1.1.0.