7. - 21.10. uC proto assembly in switzerland

After assembling succesfully the prototype testing interface in Finland it was time to start programming the device as well as the ADS analog front end. For this Robert wanted to assemble his own prototype in switzerland to enable programming of the ADS1292 through the uC.

Prototype assembly in switzerland

 Therefore Johannes mailed him couple of his uC and ADS adapter- PCBs and Robert soldered them as well manually to the adapters. The result is in the picture below.

Manually soldered 64-pin VQFN MSP430F5308 uC in the adapter PCB.

ADS adapter PCB soldered but not yet connected.

At the moment the interface is still not running and problems occur to connect the uC. Robert is working on it to get a valid connection to the uC.

3.10 testing the microcontroller

On Thursday morning we met with Gerardo and Sonja in the lab to test if the MSP430 uC mounted on the adapter would function. After updating the firmware of the debugger device and assembling the the specified JTAG configuration, we managed to successfully blink two LEDs with the code we learned previously in the workshop Robert had prepared for us (two LEDs blinking with a loop of 50000 empty calculations). In other words, it seems we have a fully functional microcontroller, adapter and programming tools!