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!