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replaces internal PC-based plug-in cards
in various test, control, monitor, and
measurement applications. Complete
product specifications are available at
the J-Works website. Single unit price
for the Model JSB370 starts at $75.
Delivery is from stock.
For more information, contact:
J-Works, Inc.
11024 Balboa Blvd. Ste. 402
Granada Hills, CA 91344
Web: www.j-works.com
$99 DEVELOPMENT
TOOL
chip (SCoC) MSP430FG4618 or
small 14-pin F2013 microcontroller,
Texas Instruments announces
the availability of the MSP430
Experimenter's Board (part number
MSP EXP430FG4618). Along with the
two 16-bit MSP430 devices, the
board includes a TI (Chipcon) radio
frequency (RF) module connecter
for developing low power
wireless networks. The board also
features a number of input and
output options such as a microphone,
buzzer, liquid crystal display (LCD),
capacitive touch-pad, push buttons,
and pin board prototyping space,
among others.
Enabling designers to quickly
develop ultra low
power medical,
industrial, and consumer embedded
systems using either
a highly integrated
signal chain on
Multiple Design Options
with Two MSP430 devices
With two MSP430
MCUs, designers can easily
develop a variety of low
power and battery-operated
products including cost
and space sensitive sensing
applications like motion
detectors, all the way to
highly integrated applications like
high precision portable medical and
industrial sensing.
The F2013 is a small 4 mm x 4
mm, 14-pin device that features a fully
programmable clock system that
provides wake-up from an industry
leading 500 nano-amp standby to
full-speed operation in less than one
microsecond. The F2013 device
also includes a 16-bit sigma-delta
analog-to-digital (ADC) for high-precision sensing systems, 2KB of
Flash and 128KB of RAM memory,
and a basic serial communication
interface (USI) which makes SPI and
I2C implementations easy.
The FG4618 MCU includes
116KB of Flash memory and
incorporates the MSP430X core
architecture with an extended 1MB
memory model. The extended
memory access is ideal for
larger system requirements and
allows for the development of very
sophisticated real-time applications,
completely in modular C libraries.
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