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Why Teach MCU?

At it’s root, a microcontroller is a flexible, “jack of all trades” electronic component. Microcontrollers (MCUs) are seen servicing a wide variety of applications ranging from simple handlings of inputs/outputs, all the way to managing entire systems. On average, an electronic design contains up to three MCUs. That number is growing significantly as electronics become more pervasive.

The stand alone microcontroller is characterized as lower power than the processor side of embedded processing, simpler data rates and often times the closest interaction to analog (real world) signals--either through the integrated analog peripherals or through external stand-alone analog components. Microcontrollers add digital processing "smarts" to the analog/physical world and are even being embedded into larger more complex heterogeneous processor cores such as the processor on BeagleBone. If you will be designing any sort of electronic hardware, programming a microcontroller will be a skill set you will need to have.

TI MCU in Education

TI MCU's offer the broadest range of options. We offer the spectrum of low power, low cost, entry level processors to the higher power, highly specialized application specific processor. For more information about the MCU families and applications, visit TI's MCU portal.

Choose Your MCU Platform

	MSP430	C2000	Stellaris	Hercules
Family Description	Ultra low power, 16-bit Int	Optimized for real time control. Microcontroller with DSP function.	General purpose, good graphics and communications interface	Safety real time dual cores
Architecture Information	Harvard 16-bit	Modified Harvard 16-32 Bit	ARM Cortex-M3 and M4F 32 Bit	ARM Cortex-R4 32 Bit
Software	Code Composer Studio Grace (graphical configuration) MSP430Ware MSPFlashProgrammer	Code Composer Studio Control Suite	Code Composer Studio LMFlash Programmer StellarisWare	Code Composer Studio TI-Resource Explorer
Other IDE	IAR, Energia, GCC	IAR & MathWorks	Keil, Code Sorcery, Code Red, IAR	IAR
Academic Platform	EZ430-CHRONOS Watch Dev Tool EZ430-RF2500 2.4GHz RF Dev Tool F2013x Experimenter Board F5438A Experimenter Board with Rep Socket F5529 Experimenter Board with USB & Cap Touch FRAM Experimenter Board MSP430 LaunchPad MSP430 Stand-alone Emulator Tool	Concerto controlCARD Concerto Experimenter Kit Delfino Experimenter Kit DRV8412 Motor Driver Kit F28027 Piccolo Experimenter Kit F28035 Piccolo Experimenter Kit F28069 Piccolo Experimenter Kit Motor Control and PFC Dev Kit Motor Control Eval Kit Piccolo controlSTICK Piccolo Solar Explorer Kit	EVALBOT Eval Kit LM3S1968 Eval Kit LM3S811 Eval Kit LM3S9D96 Connectivity Eval Kit LM4F232 ARM Cortex-M4F Eval Kit
LaunchPad	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Community	E2E, www.43oh.com	E2E	E2E	E2E
Academic Partners	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
More Information	MSP430	C2000	Stellaris	Hercules

MCU Resources

• MCU portal www.ti.com/mcu
• Code Composer Studio: www.ti.com/ccstudio
• Energia-Arduino IDE: http://energia.nu
• Sample applications: www.ti.com/applications
• MSP430 community activity: www.43oh.com
• E2E community: www.ti.com/e2e
• Training in your area: www.ti.com/training
• LaunchPads: www.ti.com/launchpad
• Sign up for the TI MCU Newsflash for monthly updates: News Flash

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