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Top 10 Dev Boards in 2025: What’s Hot and Why?

Catwell

(Image credit: PXHere) Development boards continue to evolve as designers push for more computing power, lower power consumption, better connectivity, and integrated AI acceleration. The boards released over the last year reflect those notions, with...
- 12 Dec 2025
MSPM0 Open Drain IO duty cycle controlled by a timer

Jan Cumps

The Texas Instruments MSPM0 microcontroller has a few open drain IOs. TI calls them ODIO. In this post, I show that they can be controlled by a timer. More specific: one of the MSPM0 PWM peripherals will control the duty cycle of an open dr...
- 19 Nov 2025
switch up to 5V and 8 mA with MSPM0 Open Drain IO

Jan Cumps

The Texas Instruments MSPM0 microcontroller has a few open drain GPIOs. TI calls them ODIO. These are 5V tolerant, and can switch up to ( see jc2048 comment below) +-8 mA. The main purpose is to support multi-level IO. They&...
- 18 Nov 2025
pdsink: USB-PD 3.2 sink stack for embedded devices

pvit

USB-C PD is everywhere now, and a lot of embedded designs only need one thing: be a sink and behave correctly. In practice, available PD stacks usually come with at least one hard constraint: vendor lock-in / NDA / no public sources, tied to a speci...
- 16 Nov 2025
Smallest GPU in The World is All Set for Production

Catwell

The TinyGPU v2.0 converts 3D vector graphics into raster images. (Image credit: Pongsagon Vichit/X) Pongsagon Vichit, an FPGA designer and retro PC fanatic, recently announced TinyGPU v2.0. This GPU works like an independent processor, performing 3D...
- 14 Nov 2025
EasyL1105 GUI Composer Demo: JSON interface between MSPM0 and PC GUI

Jan Cumps

Texas Instrument's GUI Composer can be used to design with LCD displays. But it also has a useful API for the MSPM0: JSON communication over UART. This is a low footprint mechanism where you can exchange data with a PC GUI, or with another ...
- 16 Oct 2025
measure MSPM0 low power modes

Jan Cumps

In advanced XDS110 debugger use with EasyL1105 MSPM0 board: EnergyTrace I used TI's EnergyTrace to get the power use of a low power EasyL1105 design. To get at the current use at real low power modes, I use the design w...
- 11 Oct 2025
Low Power Compact LCD example for the EasyL1105 MSPM0 board

Jan Cumps

Port of Building a Low Power Compact LCD Display to TI's MSPM0 controller. I use EasyL1105: A Dev Board for the TI ARM Cortex-M0+ L-Series . This port can be used on any MSPM0 launchpad or board. LCD It's a low p...
- 10 Oct 2025
efficient sprintf() string format lib for lower range microcontrollers

Jan Cumps

I'm learning the ins and outs of an MSPM0 controller. I'm using an MSPM01105, that's low on power use. But also low on available memory.I tried to use the standard C library's sprintf() function in a project, to format a string with a few i...
- 4 Oct 2025
PID temperature controller for the EasyL1105 MSPM0 board - Pt. 3: PWM

Jan Cumps

shabaz designed a development kit for the recent Texas Instruments MSPM0 microcontroller series. This 4 part blog series documents the steps to design a PID temperature controller. Part 3: add PWM to generate a PID ...
- 2 Oct 2025
PWM example for the EasyL1105 MSPM0 board

Jan Cumps

TI's SDK for the MSPM0 family has a set of examples. They are all targeting one of their LaunchPad dev kits. In this post, I'm porting another one to the EasyL1105. The example, pwm_led_driver, changes the brightness of an LED by changing t...
- 29 Sep 2025
PID temperature controller for the EasyL1105 MSPM0 board - Pt. 2: ADC

Jan Cumps

shabaz designed a development kit for the recent Texas Instruments MSPM0 microcontroller series. This 4 part blog series documents the steps to design a PID temperature controller. Part 2: add ADC to sample the temperatu...
- 27 Sep 2025
PID temperature controller for the EasyL1105 MSPM0 board - Pt. 1: framework

Jan Cumps

shabaz designed a development kit for the recent Texas Instruments MSPM0 microcontroller series. This 4 part blog series documents the steps to design a PID temperature controller. Part 1: the framework. (post that ...
- 25 Sep 2025
14 bit ADC oversample example for the EasyL1105 MSPM0 board

Jan Cumps

TI's SDK for the MSPM0 family has a set of examples. They are all targeting one of their LaunchPad dev kits. In this post, I'm porting another one to the EasyL1105. The example, adc14_14bit_resolution, uses hardware to oversample the 12 bit...
- 24 Sep 2025
GPIO wakeup example for the EasyL1105 MSPM0 board

Jan Cumps

TI's SDK for the MSPM0 family has a set of examples. They are all targeting one of their LaunchPad dev kits. In this post, I'm porting another one to the EasyL1105. The example, sysctl_shutdown, starts the MSPM0 in a selectable low pow...
- 22 Sep 2025
ADC and Low Power SDK example for the EasyL1105 MSPM0 board

Jan Cumps

TI's SDK for the MSPM0 family has a set of examples. They are all targeting one of their LaunchPad dev kits. In this post, I'm porting another one to the EasyL1105. The example, adc12_triggered_by_timer_event_stop, combines an ADC design with lo...
- 18 Sep 2025
advanced XDS110 debugger use with EasyL1105 MSPM0 board: EnergyTrace

Jan Cumps

In an earlier post, I tested the EasyL1105 MSPM0 kit with Code Composer Studio and an XDS110 debug probe. That blog covered the standard functionality: program the device, step through the code. This time, I try the EnergyTra...
- 14 Sep 2025
mods for EasyL1105 MSPM0 board Rev1

Jan Cumps

shabaz designed a development kit for the recent Texas Instruments MSPM0 microcontroller series. I have a Rev1, and have made a few modifications. In this post, I document them (mainly as a reminder for @self ). (post th...
- 13 Sep 2025
Build Bootloader compatible firmware for EasyL1105 MSPM0 board with Code Composer Studio

Jan Cumps

shabaz designed a development kit for the recent Texas Instruments MSPM0 microcontroller series. In this post, I build a .HEX file that can be used with the Python bootloader for this board.Level: very easy. (post that i...
- 12 Sep 2025
EasyL1105 MSPM0 board: hello, world

Jan Cumps

shabaz designed a development kit for the recent Texas Instruments MSPM0 microcontroller series. In this post, a little hello, world example. Complexity: low. (post that introduces the kit) Required hardware an...
- 9 Sep 2025
Cheap debugger ($6) for EasyL1105 MSPM0 board

Jan Cumps

shabaz designed a development kit for the recent Texas Instruments MSPM0 microcontroller series. In this post, I show how to use a LaunchPad as debugger for that board. Complexity: low. (post that introduces the kit) ...
- 7 Sep 2025
Port an SDK example to the EasyL1105 MSPM0 board

Jan Cumps

TI's SDK for the MSPM0 family has a set of examples. They are all targeting one of their LaunchPad dev kits. In this post, I'm porting one to the EasyL1105. The example that I'll use is an FFT analysis design that's written for the LP-MSPM0C1106 laun...
- 6 Sep 2025
Use TI Code Composer Studio with EasyL1105 MSPM0 board

Jan Cumps

shabaz designed a development kit for the recent Texas Instruments MSPM0 microcontroller series. In this post, I try to make it work with TI's toolchain: Code Composer Studio, and the XDS110 debugger. This introduction post&n...
- 5 Sep 2025
Problem getting data from ST-WINBX1 sensors

embeddedguy

Hello Element14 Community members, I have been working on element14 roadtest for ST-WINBX1 and wanted to know about the problem that I am facing to get the sensor data. I am using Zephyr OS. I am getting the data for one accelerometer but after tha...
- 26 Aug 2025
EasyL1105: A Dev Board for the TI ARM Cortex-M0+ L-Series

shabaz

Table of Contents Introduction Circuit Description 1. Microcontroller Core 2. USB UART 3. Voltage Regulator Circuit Board Building and Running an Example Project Summary TLDR Section The easyL1105 is a TI MSPM0L1105 Development Board ...
- 10 Aug 2025