The Modular Sensor Board (MSB430) was developed by FU-Berlin and was added as a platform in Contiki in the spring of 2007. More...

The Modular Sensor Board (MSB430) was developed by FU-Berlin and was added as a platform in Contiki in the spring of 2007.

In its basic form, this board consists of a Texas Instruments MSP430f1612 processor, a Chipcon CC1020 radio chip, an MMA7260Q accelerometer, and a Sensirion SHT11 temperature and humidity sensor. The MSB also has an SD device, which makes it suitable for storage-centric sensor networks. There are also extended versions of the board that are equipped with a GPRS-modem and a GPS-receiver.

Programming the MSB430

The msb430 port requires an installation of mspgcc (http://mspgcc.sourceforge.net) to compile. Once the compilation tools have been installed, you can compile your software and Contiki with three main target types:

<file>.firmware - A system image in ELF format. <file>.ihex - A firmware file converted to the Intel Hex format. <file>.u - Direct upload to a node.

Before compiling your system, you may want to look at the configuration options in platform/msb430/configure-conf.h.

The node is typically programmed by typing

    make TARGET=msb430 <program name>.u

Alternatively, a ready .ihex file can be uploaded to the node by running

    msp430-jtag -l <parallell port identifier> -e -I <ihex file>

Platform-specific example programs are included in platform/msb430/apps and can be compiled and uploaded from platform/msb430. A larger set of examples for Contiki in general are in the examples/ directory.

More information about the MSB430 platform can be found at Scatterweb: http://www.scatterweb.com/content/products/MSB_en.html