Hi All,
After a week of assessing the MSP430FR and new MSP430i series, I am now happy to commence a new commercial project development based on the MSP430FR4133 and MSP430i2xxx.
It's a handheld instrument that needs to make some precision analogue measurements. (No - it's not a tricorder 
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The MSP430FR4133 will basically run an LCD (either segmented or Sharp 400x200) and the user interface of a few soft buttons.
There may be the need to move to a larger FRAM size when using the Sharp 400x256 - as that will use 12K of fram as the display buffer. I am also considering '5969 and '6969 for this role.
The MSP430i2xxx - which I only discovered over the weekend will do the analogue measurements with its SD24 ADC, filter and scale and then pass the data to the '4133 for display.
This is a particularly economical implementation, and likely to half the BOM cost of the existing instrument which is based on a MSP430F437 and an external 16-bit ADC.
I can't talk much about the exact application at the moment - but I believe that the combination of an analogue processor and a display processor will be a powerful one.
The low power operation of the MSP is ideal for this cost sensitive battery powered instrument.
Development starts in full tomorrow - when I receive my '4133 LaunchPad.
On a separate topic, I am also developing a tiny Forth-like language, which runs out of about 2Kbytes and 512B of RAM. This will be the subject of a separate post. It's not commercially sensitive - so I'm free to discuss it with other interested parties here.
regards
Ken
London