Multi-Standard MCU TI vs NXP - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: trungosu
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 02, 2018, 12:12:52 am
content: Hi everyone,Nice to meet you guys. I just became David's fan.Figure it out the best community here.I'm building a project which I want to receive data from a zigbee sensor and send it to phone using BLE or to cloud using GSM.It looks like if I use KW41Z from NXP or CC2650STK from TI which includes multi-standard already.I'm a beginner which mostly working with Arduino before.In term of support, software, documents. Which one should I choose or even if you know a better option.Thanks.

author: Gibson486
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2018, 02:19:27 pm
content: I have never used a TI micro controller outside of university.....In fact, your post reminded me that the MSP430 actually exists. I remember that it was an pretty easy platform to use, but that is all i remember. Either one should fit the bill. It depends on what your goals are. TI if you are more concerned about speed of completion, NXP if you want to actually learn the grit of firmware. Of course, I have not used these exact chips at all, so i am just generalizing.

author: josip
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2018, 02:40:54 pm
content: Quote from: trungosu on March 02, 2018, 12:12:52 amRegarding software, TI CCS and Energia are free, on Windows, OS X and Linux.http://www.ti.com/tool/CCSTUDIO-MSPhttp://energia.nuTI FET's are open (hardware and software) tools, and you can build it by yourself if you want.https://forum.43oh.com/topic/5530-custom-ezfet-lite/I like TI documentation (style more than NXP), and there is e2e support...https://e2e.ti.com/support/microcontrollers/msp430that is better (from my point of view) then similar on NXP side.However, I have some Kinetis M0+ devices that are better (from my project) than MSP that I am currently use, and will try them soon.Here is topic related to ST vs MSP, so maybe you can find something there...https://forum.43oh.com/topic/3416-stm32l-vs-msp430f5-whats-left-for-msp430/

author: Gribo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 05, 2018, 06:01:19 pm
content: The CC2650 has an ARM M3 core, not an MSP core. Theoretically, any toolchain that supports the ARM M3 should support the CC2650, but the easiest is to install Code composer and the relevant MCU support package.

author: lgbeno
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2018, 10:51:20 pm
content: Is your sensor really using Zigbee? CC2650 feels like the right choice for the job. With that said taking something like an ESP8266 and hook it up to either a transceiver or some module that makes a zigbee interface easy.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

author: trungosu
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2018, 11:36:59 pm
content: Quote from: lgbeno on March 06, 2018, 10:51:20 pmThank you very muchYes. I plan to use CC2531 or JN5169 for Zigbee Sensor. I open some commercial Zigbee sensor and looks like they are using them. But I aware of many types of Zigbee as well. IEEE 802.15.4 includes many protocols.And yes the gate which I plan to use multi-standard chip and ESP8266 or U-blox SARA R410 LTE to transfer the data to cloud.