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430BOOST-SENSE1 Overview

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The Capacitive Sense BoosterPack features the new MSP430G2xx2 devices, which are capable of driving

up to 16 touch-sense enabled I/O pins. The included MSP430G2452 device allows for low-cost

capacitive-sensing and approximation-sensing applications without the use of any external components.

The BoosterPack includes a capacitive sense board and an MSP420G2452 device preprogrammed with a

demo application. The user experience application demonstrates capacitive sense as standalone feature

by showing the user interaction directly with the onboard LEDs, by a GUI, or by an application example on

a Microsoft Windows PC.

430BOOST-SENSE1 features:

• Nine LEDs giving instant feedback to user interaction

• Six touch-sense areas (a button, a 4-element wheel, and a proximity sensor)

• One preprogrammed MSP430G2452 device

For latest information on the LaunchPad, other available BoosterPacks, software examples, and how to

program the included MSP430G2452 device, see the MSP-EXP430G2 LaunchPad Experimenter Board

User’s Guide (SLAU318) or the LaunchPad wiki page

processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/MSP430_LaunchPad_(MSP-EXP430G2).

1.2 Kit Contents

The 430BOOST-SENSE1 kit includes two components:

• One Capacitive Touch BoosterPack board with nine LEDs and six sensor areas

• One preprogrammed MSP430G2452 device

This device is a low-power 16-bit microcontroller with an 8-channel 10-bit ADC, comparator, universal

serial interface that supports SPI and I2C, 8kB flash memory, and 256B RAM memory

430BOOST-SENSE1 - Capacitive Touch BoosterPack for the LaunchPad SLAU337A– April 2011– Revised September 2011

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