The board arrives in a black retail box. Launchpad users will instantly recognize it as it’s almost identical to the Launchpad. The similarities don’t end here as the contents and the board layout itself are modeled to the Launchpad.

Unlike the Launchpad, the MSP-EXP430FR5739MSP-EXP430FR5739 board has the male headers soldered onto the board. This saves me the trouble as I would probably have soldered them anyways and reduces the risk of damaging the board. But some users may want to use female headers in which case they will have to carefully remove the male headers first.
- Mode 1 Writing at full speed: 811uA
- Mode 2 Writing at low speed: 131uA
- Mode 3 Accelerometer based Bubble Level Demo: 102uA
Next I tried to write a small modified “Hello World app”. It was a disappointment that FRAM devices are not supported on GRACE. Fortunately, code written for other MSP430 devices will run on FRAM devices with little to no changes, so I downloaded a “Hello world app” written for the Launchpad and modified a couple of lines to use 2 of the blue LEDs (I attached it to this post). The code was compiled without errors and soon I had the code downloaded to the device and had started a debug session.