Hello everyone,

I am helping someone for a while now with his interests that make use of circuits but very little or no experience with troubleshooting etc. So far everything revolved around circuits and PCB designs that were found online and adapted. But one of the projects is using MCU meaning software is involved too. And it is not one of products I have used so far or have access to. And since one of them is soldered to PCB, simply swapping ICs is not something for him. So question is if he can simply drop the other one into socket on his TI LaunchPad (i think it is MSP-EXP430G2) read the content and then just use file compare to verify if both actually do match...

 

There are two versions of TI MSP430G2 Launchpad.

Older version: MSP-EXP430G2


More recent version: MSP-EXP430G2-ET


They are equivalent and compatible.

I would recommend not using them like Arduino. You can mount the target MCU MSP430G2553 in DIP-20 package, on to a solderless breadboard and you can program the MCU in-circuit.

 

i think it was the older one, it was used as programmer, after which the IC was moved to a target PCB. the question was can the development board be used to do steps in reverse to read the code back and do a comparison.

 

I am sure that the board can be used to read back the code. The question is, can the IDE or programming software readback and compare two reads?