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• All code running on our electrical system is written in C. It would be a good idea to become familiar with C before continuing with this tutorial. You can find many resources online about programming in C such as this one.
• Code Composer Studio (CCS) should be installed.
  1. Make an account on TI's website.
  2. Download and install CCS. Select anything containing "MSP430."
• A MSP430 EXP430F5529LP Launchpad. (There is some available in the bay to use or you can purchase your own here).
• Read Clearing, Toggling, Setting, and Checking a Bit.
• MSP430F5529 datasheets
  • MSP430F552x, MSP430F551x Mixed-Signal Microcontrollers
  • MSP430x5xx and MSP430x6xx Family User's Guide

Setting up a project

Go to the top menu bar and click File->New->CCS Project. The dialog that appears should look something like this:

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I've already explained the PxOUT and PxDIR registers, so we'll skip over them and look at the for loop. In the for loop, we are toggling bit 0 of P1OUT using the XOR operator (See Clearing, Toggling, Setting, and Checking a Bit) and then we call a special function, __delay_cycles.

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