VUMCR Platform Support

The Debugger Board uses the MSP430F5529 microcontroller. This is regarded as a third generation MSP430 microcontroller and is represented as the x5xxx family in TinyOS.

Building

We have developed a TinyOS platform for use with the Debugger Board. The make target for this board is vumcr, thus the make command is.:

$ make vumcr

Flashing

The proper Udev rules need to be set in Linux in order to have permission to use the USB programmers. Place the following in /etc/udev/rules.d/82-msp430.rules and chmod it to 644.:

#mspdebug
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0451", ATTRS{idProduct}=="f432", MODE="0666", GROUP="users"

#msp430-bsl
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="2047", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0200", MODE="0666", GROUP="users"

#msp fet430uif
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0451", ATTRS{idProduct}=="f430", MODE="0666", GROUP="users"

#Any Texas Instrument programmer
SUBSYSTEM=="tty", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="Texas*",  MODE:="0666", GROUP="users"

### mspdebug

mspdebug can be used to program the MSP430 through the eZ430 emulation interface. The switches on the Debugger Board must be correctly configured (See Debugger Guide) and the usb cable has to be connected. Additionally, mspdebug has to be installed on the host computer.

mspdebug tilib

The best way to use the MSP-FET430 jtag programmer is using the tilib library. To install this library, find libmsp430.so and place it in /usr/lib32/ or /usr/lib depending on whether it is 32 bit or 64 bit. Also make sure that mspdebug has the same architecture (32/64 bit) as libmsp430. To install a 32 bit mspdebug in ubuntu, use:

$ sudo apt-get install mspdebug:i386

The main problem with this approach is having to find libmsp430.so in the first place. There are multiple ways to do this including compiling it from http://www.ti.com/tool/MSPDS or digging through Code Composer’s installation files.

To flash/debug programs with this approach, run the following:

$ make vumcr install tilib

or:

$ mspdebug tilib